Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

Moffatt New Testament

Keep your loins girt and your lamps lit,

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 is; There will your hearts be also. 35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning, 36 and ye yourselves, like unto men that wait for their master when he will return from a wedding: that as soon as he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him.

Cross References

Matthew 25:1

Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went to meet the bridegroom:

Matthew 25:4-10

But the wise took oil with them in their vessels with their lamps also.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand, therefore, and your loins gird about with verity, having on the breastplate of righteousness,

1 Peter 1:13

Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought unto you by the declaring of Jesus Christ;

Proverbs 31:17

She girdeth her loins with strength, and courageth her arms.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.

Philippians 2:15

that ye may be faultless, and pure, and the sons of God; without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation, among which see that ye shine as lights in the world,

1 Kings 18:46

And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab, till they came to Jezreel.

Isaiah 5:27

There is not one faint or feeble among them, no not a sluggish nor slippery person. There shall not one of them put off the girdle from his loins, nor loose the latchet of his shoe.

Isaiah 11:5

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

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