Matthew 24:42 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁴² Therefore watch; for you cannot be sure on what day your Master is coming.

³⁶ But about that Day and Hour, no one knows--not even the angels of Heaven, nor yet the Son--but only the Father himself.

⁴⁴ Therefore, do you also prepare, since it is just when you are least expecting him that the Son of Man will come.

¹³ Therefore watch, since you know neither the Day nor the Hour.

³⁸ "I am sad at heart," he said, "sad even to death; wait here and watch with me." ³⁹ Going on a little further, he threw himself on his face in prayer. "My Father," he said, "if it is possible, let me be spared this cup; only, not as I will, but as thou willest." ⁴⁰ Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep. "What!" he said to Peter, "could none of you watch with me for one hour? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

³³ See that you are on the watch; for you do not know when the time will be. ³⁴ It is like a man going on a journey, who leaves his home, puts his servants in charge--each having his special duty--and orders the porter to watch. ³⁵ Therefore watch, for you cannot be sure when the Master of the house is coming-- whether in the evening, at midnight, at daybreak, or in the morning-- ³⁶ Lest he should come suddenly and find you asleep. ³⁷ And what I say to you I say to all--Watch!"

³⁵ Make yourselves ready, with your lamps alight; ³⁶ And be like men who are waiting for their Master's return from his wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door for him at once. ³⁷ Happy are those servants whom, on his return, the Master will find watching. I tell you that he will make himself ready, and bid them take their places at table, and will come and wait upon them. ³⁸ Whether it is late at night, or in the early morning that he comes, if he finds all as it should be, then happy are they. ³⁹ This you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ Do you also prepare, for when you are least expecting him the Son of Man will come."

³⁶ Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

¹¹ This I say, because you know the crisis that we have reached, for the time has already come for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; our Salvation is nearer now than when we accepted the Faith.

¹³ Be watchful; stand firm in your faith; show yourselves men; be strong.

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep as others do. No, let us be watchful and self-controlled.

⁷ But the end of all things is near. Therefore exercise self-restraint and be calm, that you may be able to pray.

⁸ Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the Devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you.

² Be on the watch, and strengthen what still survives, though once it was all but dead; for I have not found your life perfect in the eyes of my God. ³ Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.

¹⁵ ('I am coming like a thief! Happy will he be who is on the watch, and keeps his clothing at hand, so that he will not have to walk about unclothed and let men see his nakedness.')