Matthew 24:42 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

◄ Matthew 24:42 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

English Standard Version
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

King James Bible
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore be alert, since you don't know what day your Lord is coming.

International Standard Version
"So keep on watching, because you don't know on what day your Lord is coming.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come.

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

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

Cross References

Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the manager of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Matthew 24:44
Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.

Matthew 25:10
And while 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 therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.

Mark 13:35
Watch you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house comes, 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 comes shall find watching: truly I say to you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

Luke 12:39
And this know, that if the manager of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come on you unawares.

Luke 21:36
Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

24:42-51 To watch for Christ's coming, is to maintain that temper of mind which we would be willing that our Lord should find us in. We know we have but a little time to live, we cannot know that we have a long time to live; much less do we know the time fixed for the judgment. Our Lord's coming will be happy to those that shall be found ready, but very dreadful to those that are not. If a man, professing to be the servant of Christ, be an unbeliever, covetous, ambitious, or a lover of pleasure, he will be cut off. Those who choose the world for their portion in this life, will have hell for their portion in the other life. May our Lord, when he cometh, pronounce us blessed, and present us to the Father, washed in his blood, purified by his Spirit, and fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 24

Mt 24:1-51. Christ's Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem, and Warnings Suggested by It to Prepare for His Second Coming. ( = Mr 13:1-37; Lu 21:5-36).

For the exposition, see on [1355]Mr 13:1-37.