Luke 21:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Your hearts

Surfeiting

1 Corinthians 5:11

1 Corinthians 6:10

Galatians 5:20

Cares

Philippians 4:6

That day

General references

Bible References

Your hearts

"But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,

Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.

For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

Surfeiting

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism,

Cares

"And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection.

"Martha, Martha," said Jesus, "you are anxious and worried about many things,

"And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

When they have heard the Word, the anxieties of life and the snares of wealth, and all sorts of other ambitions, come in to choke the Word, so that it proves unfruitful.

Do not worry about anything; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

That day

"that slave's master will arrive on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour when he knows not, and will surely scourge him, and appoint him his portion with the unfaithful.

nor did they know until the deluge came and swept them away; so will be the coming of the son of man.

keep watch then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening, at midnight, at cockcrow, or in the morning??36 lest he should come unexpectedly and find you sleeping;

You yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that Day the heavens will vanish with a crash, the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all its works will be burned up.

Call to mind, then, what you have received and heard, and hold to it, and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come as a thief, and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you.

General references

Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so that it yielded no crop.

nor the Son, but only the Father.

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

"In the same manner it shall be in the day that the Son of man shall be revealed.