Matthew 24:42
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Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.

Watch.

Matthew 25:13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Matthew 26:38-41 Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me. . . .

Mark 13:33-37 Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. . . .

Luke 12:35-40 Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. . . .

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 3:2,3 Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I find not thy works full before my God. . . .

Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

for.

Matthew 24:36,44 But of that day and hour no one knoweth: no, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone. . . .

Mark 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.

Context
Readiness at Any Hour
41Two women shall be grinding at the mill. One shall be taken and one shall be left. 42Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come. 43But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.…
Cross References
Matthew 24:43
But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

Matthew 24:44
Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.

Matthew 25:10
Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut.

Matthew 25:13
Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:35
Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning):

Mark 13:37
And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.

Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

Luke 12:39
But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Luke 21:36
Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Lexicon
Therefore
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

keep watch,
Γρηγορεῖτε (Grēgoreite)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1127: (a) I am awake (in the night), watch, (b) I am watchful, on the alert, vigilant. From egeiro; to keep awake, i.e. Watch.

because
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

you do not know
οἴδατε (oidate)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

[the] day
ἡμέρᾳ (hēmera)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

on which
ποίᾳ (poia)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 4169: Of what sort. From the base of pou and hoios; individualizing interrogative what sort of, or which one.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

Lord
κύριος (kyrios)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.

will come.
ἔρχεται (erchetai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2064: To come, go.


Additional Translations
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

Therefore keep watch, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes.

Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come.

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

Watch therefore, for ye know not in what hour your Lord comes.

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord cometh.

Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.

Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

'Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;
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