Parallel Verses

Moffatt New Testament

Keep your loins girt and your lamps lit,

New American Standard Bible

Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit.

King James Version

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

Holman Bible

“Be ready for service and have your lamps lit.

International Standard Version

"You must keep your belts fastened and your lamps burning.

A Conservative Version

Let your loins be girded about, and the lights burning,

American Standard Version

Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;

Amplified

“Be dressed and ready for active service, and keep your lamps continuously burning.

An Understandable Version

"Fasten your belts [i.e., get things ready], keep your lamps lit,

Anderson New Testament

Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning;

Bible in Basic English

Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning.

Common New Testament

"Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning,

Daniel Mace New Testament

Let your loins be girt, and your lamps burning:

Darby Translation

Let your loins be girded about, and lamps burning;

Godbey New Testament

Let your loins be girted, and your lamps burning;

Goodspeed New Testament

You must be ready with your lamps burning,

John Wesley New Testament

Let your loins be girt,

Julia Smith Translation

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

King James 2000

Let your waists be girded about, and your lamps burning;

Lexham Expanded Bible

"{You must be prepared for action} and [your] lamps burning.

Modern King James verseion

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning,

Montgomery New Testament

"Let your loins be girded about and your lamps burning;

NET Bible

"Get dressed for service and keep your lamps burning;

New Heart English Bible

"Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.

Noyes New Testament

Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;

Sawyer New Testament

Stand with your loins girded, and your candles lighted,

The Emphasized Bible

Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Let your loins be firmly girded round, and your lamps burning:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Make yourselves ready, with your lamps alight;

Webster

Let your loins be girt, and your lights burning;

Weymouth New Testament

"Have your girdles on, and let your lamps be alight;

Williams New Testament

"You must keep your belts tight and your lamps burning,

World English Bible

"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Worrell New Testament

"Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;

Worsley New Testament

Let your loins be girt, and your lights burning, and

Youngs Literal Translation

'Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Let
ἔστω ἔστωσαν 
Esto 
let be, be, not tr
Usage: 10

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

ὀσφύς 
Osphus 
Usage: 7

be
ἔστω ἔστωσαν 
Esto 
let be, be, not tr
Usage: 10

περιζώννυμι 
Perizonnumi 
Usage: 4

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

λύχνος 
Luchnos 
Usage: 4

References

Hastings

Context Readings

On The Alert For The Master's Return

34 For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too. 35 Keep your loins girt and your lamps lit, 36 and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.


Cross References

Matthew 25:1

Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

Matthew 25:4-10

whereas the sensible took oil in their vessels as well as their lamps.

Ephesians 6:14

Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,

1 Peter 1:13

Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 5:16

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

Philippians 2:15

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

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