Luke 12:35-40 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Ready for the Master’s Return

³⁵ “Be ready for service^[a] and have your lamps lit. ³⁶ You must be like people waiting for their master to return^[b] from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. ³⁷ Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed. I assure you: He will get ready,^[c] have them recline at the table, then come and serve them. ³⁸ If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn,^[d] and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed. ³⁹ But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

1 Thessalonians 5:2 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

² For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

⁶ So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. ⁸ But since we belong to the day, we must be serious and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation.