Luke 12:35-44

New American Standard Bible

Be in Readiness

³⁵“^[a]^(A)Be prepared, and keep your ^(B)lamps lit. ³⁶You are also to be like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door for him when he comes and knocks. ³⁷Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find ^(C)on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that ^(D)he will ^[b]prepare himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and he will come up and serve them. ³⁸^(E)Whether he comes in the ^[c]second watch, or even in the ^[d]third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.

³⁹“^(F)But ^[e]be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be ^(G)broken into. ⁴⁰^(H)You too, be ready; because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think He will.”

⁴¹Peter said, “Lord, are You telling this parable to us, or ^(I)to everyone else as well?” ⁴²And ^(J)the Lord said, “^(K)Who then is the faithful and sensible ^(L)steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time? ⁴³Blessed is that ^(M)slave whom his ^[f]master finds so doing when he comes. ⁴⁴Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.