Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Be ye prepared therefore, for the son of man will come at a hour when ye think not."

New American Standard Bible

You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

King James Version

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Holman Bible

You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

International Standard Version

So be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at a time when you don't expect him."

A Conservative Version

Therefore, ye also become ready, because the Son of man comes at that hour ye do not suppose.

American Standard Version

Be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Amplified

You too, be continually ready; because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

An Understandable Version

So, you also should be ready, for the Son of man will return at a time when you least expect Him."

Anderson New Testament

Be you, therefore, ready also; for at an hour when you think not, the Son of man comes.

Bible in Basic English

So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

Common New Testament

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."

Daniel Mace New Testament

be ye therefore likewise prepar'd; for the son of man will come, when you least expect him.

Darby Translation

And ye therefore, be ye ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think it, the Son of man comes.

Godbey New Testament

Be ye also ready: because at an hour you do not think the Son of man cometh.

Goodspeed New Testament

You must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him."

John Wesley New Testament

Therefore be ye also ready; for the Son of man cometh in an hour when ye think not.

Julia Smith Translation

And be ye therefore ready: for in the time which ye think not the Son of man is coming.

King James 2000

Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come]."

Modern King James verseion

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man comes at an hour when you think not.

Moffatt New Testament

So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect."

Montgomery New Testament

"Do you also be ready, for in an hour that you think not the Son of man is coming."

NET Bible

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

New Heart English Bible

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you do not expect him."

Noyes New Testament

Be ye also ready; for at an hour when ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Sawyer New Testament

Be you also ready; for in an hour when you think not the Son of man comes.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye, therefore, be getting ready, because, in what hour ye are not thinking, The Son of an cometh!

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Therefore be ye also ready, for at an hour that ye think not of, the Son of man cometh.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Do you also prepare, for when you are least expecting him the Son of Man will come."

Webster

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Weymouth New Testament

Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come."

Williams New Testament

So you, too, must always be ready, for at an hour that you are not expecting, the Son of Man will come."

World English Bible

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

Worrell New Testament

Be ye also ready; because at an hour ye think not the Son of Man cometh."

Worsley New Testament

therefore be ye also ready; for the Son of man cometh at a season that ye think not of.

Youngs Literal Translation

and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Be
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

ye
ὑμείς 
Humeis 
ye, ye yourselves, you, not tr
Usage: 120

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

ἑτοιμος 
hetoimos 
Usage: 9


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

for
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

the Son
υἱός 
Huios 
Usage: 213

of man
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

ἔρχομαι 
Erchomai 
come, go, , vr come
Usage: 424

at an hour
ὥρα 
Hora 
Usage: 67

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

ye think
δοκέω 
Dokeo 
Usage: 45

Devotionals

Devotionals about Luke 12:40

Images Luke 12:40

Context Readings

On The Alert For The Master's Return

39 This shall ye understand, that if the good man of the house knew what hour the thief would have come, he would surely have watched: and not suffer his house to be broken up. 40 Be ye prepared therefore, for the son of man will come at a hour when ye think not." 41 Then Peter said unto him, "Master tellest thou this similitude unto us, or to all men?"


Cross References

Matthew 24:42

Wake, therefore, because ye know not what hour your master will come.

Matthew 24:44

Therefore be ye also ready, for in the hour ye think least on, in the same ye think he would not: will the son of man come.

Matthew 25:13

Look that ye watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor yet the hour, when the son of man shall come.

Mark 13:33-36

Take heed: watch, and pray, for ye know not when the time is:

Luke 21:34-36

Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.

Romans 13:11

This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Romans 13:14

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.

2 Peter 3:12-14

looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall perish with fire, and the elements shall be consumed with heat.

Revelation 19:7

Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him: for the marriage of the lamb is come, and his wife made herself ready.

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