Luke Chapter 12 verse 35 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 12:35

Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;
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BBE Luke 12:35

Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning.
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DARBY Luke 12:35

Let your loins be girded about, and lamps burning;
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KJV Luke 12:35

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
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WBT Luke 12:35


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WEB Luke 12:35

"Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning.
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YLT Luke 12:35

`Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,
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Luke 12 : 35 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 35, 36. - Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. The Master goes on with his teaching on the subject of covetousness, still addressing himself primarily to the disciples. "There is another reason why my chosen followers should treat the amassing of earthly goods with indifference; no man knows when the end of this state of things may come; their hearts must be fixed on something else than perishable things. They must act as servants on the watch for the return of their lord. See now, my own," Jesus proceeds to say; "your attitude in life must be that of servants, at once loyal and devoted, whom their employer has left in his house while he is absent at a great wedding-feast. The day of his absence passes into evening, and evening shades into night; and even the night wears slowly and tediously away, and still the master of the house comes not back from his festival." But the faithful servants all this while never slumber, or even lie down to rest. All the time of his absence, with their loose flowing Eastern robes taken up, and the skirt fastened under the girdle, with their lamps all trimmed and burning, these watchers wait the coming of their lord, though he tarry long, that they may be ready to receive him and serve him the moment he arrives. All kinds of busy house service, too, carried on during the long night of watching, is implied by the girt-up robes and the lit lamps of the tireless watchers.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) Let your loins be girded . . .--To "gird up the loins" was, in Eastern habits and with Eastern garments, the received symbol of readiness for active service (Luke 12:37; Luke 17:8; 1Kings 18:46; 2Kings 1:8; John 13:4; 1Peter 1:13). The "lights" are the lamps (as in Matthew 5:15) which the watchful hold in their hands. What follows has the interest of presenting the germ of the thought which was afterwards developed into the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. (See Notes on Matthew 25:1-13.) . . .