Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
lest if he come suddenly, he should find you sleeping.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Otherwise, he may come suddenly and find you asleep.
A Conservative Version
lest having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping.
American Standard Version
lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Amplified
[stay alert,]
An Understandable Version
[Be alert], for he might come unexpectedly and find you asleep.
Anderson New Testament
lest he come suddenly, and find you sleeping.
Bible in Basic English
For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.
Common New Testament
lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for fear by his sudden return he should surprize you sleeping.
Darby Translation
lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Godbey New Testament
lest having come suddenly he may find you sleeping.
John Wesley New Testament
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Julia Smith Translation
Lest having come suddenly he find you sleeping.
King James 2000
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Lexham Expanded Bible
lest he arrive suddenly [and] find you sleeping.
Modern King James verseion
lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping.
Moffatt New Testament
Watch, in case he comes suddenly and finds you asleep.
NET Bible
or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.
New Heart English Bible
lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
Noyes New Testament
lest coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.
Sawyer New Testament
lest, coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping.
The Emphasized Bible
Lest, coming suddenly, he find you, sleeping.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
lest coming suddenly he find you asleep.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Lest he should come suddenly and find you asleep.
Webster
Lest coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping.
Weymouth New Testament
Beware lest He should arrive unexpectedly and find you asleep.
Williams New Testament
so that he may not come unexpectedly and find you asleep.
World English Bible
lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
Worrell New Testament
lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.
Worsley New Testament
least coming on a sudden he should find you sleeping.
Youngs Literal Translation
lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;
Themes
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » What the coming of the lord is likened to
Jesus Christ » Parables of » Man taking a far journey
Parables » Parables of Christ » Man taking a far journey
The second coming of Christ » Saints » Should watch for
The second coming of Christ » The manner of » Suddenly
Sleep » Spiritual » Warnings against
Spiritual » Sleep » Warnings against
Watchfulness » Motives to » Uncertain time of the coming of Christ
Interlinear
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References
American
Hastings
Word Count of 35 Translations in Mark 13:36
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unknown Day And Hour
35 Watch, therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house will come: whether at even, or at midnight; whether at the cock crowing, or in the dawning: 36 lest if he come suddenly, he should find you sleeping. 37 And that I say unto you, I say unto all men: Watch."
Names
Cross References
Mark 14:40
And he returned and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy: neither could they wist what they might answer to him.
Proverbs 6:9-11
How long wilt thou sleep, thou sluggish man? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 24:33-34
Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little;
Song of Songs 3:1
By night in my bed I sought him, whom my soul loveth: yea, diligently sought I him, but I found him not.
Song of Songs 5:2
As I was asleep, and my heart waking, I heard the voice of my beloved, when he knocked. Open to me, said he, O my sister, my love, my darling, my dove: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of my hair are full of the night drops.
Isaiah 56:10
For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.
Matthew 24:48-51
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, my master will defer his coming,
Matthew 25:5
While the bridegroom tarried, all slumbered and slept.
Mark 14:37
And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch with me one hour?
Luke 21:34
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.
Luke 22:45
And he rose up from prayer, and came to his disciples, and found them sleeping for sorrow,
Romans 13:11-14
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.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."
1 Thessalonians 5:6-7
Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.