Matthew 24:42 Cross References - WNT

⁴² Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.

³⁶ "But as to that day and the exact time no one knows--not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.

¹³ "Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.

³⁸ and He said to them, "My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me." ³⁹ Going forward a short distance He fell on His face and prayed. "My Father," He said, "if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou willest." ⁴⁰ Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour! ⁴¹ Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

³³ Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen. ³⁴ It is like a man living abroad who has left his house, and given the management to his servants--to each one his special duty--and has ordered the porter to keep awake. ³⁵ Be wakeful therefore, for you know not when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at cock-crow, or at dawn. ³⁶ Beware lest He should arrive unexpectedly and find you asleep. ³⁷ Moreover, what I say to you I say to all--Be wakeful!"

³⁵ "Have your girdles on, and let your lamps be alight; ³⁶ and be yourselves like men waiting for their master--on the look-out till he shall return from the wedding feast--that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door instantly. ³⁷ Blessed are those servants, whom their Master when He comes shall find on the watch. I tell you in solemn truth, that He will tie an apron round Him, and will bid them recline at table while He comes and waits on them. ³⁸ And whether it be in the second watch or in the third that He comes and finds them so, blessed are they. ³⁹ Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake and not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come."

³⁶ But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

¹¹ Carry out these injunctions because you know the critical period at which we are living, and that it is now high time, to rouse yourselves from sleep; for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first became believers.

¹³ Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

⁶ So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.

⁷ But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

⁸ Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.

² Rouse yourself and keep awake, and strengthen those things which remain but have well-nigh perished; for I have found no doings of yours free from imperfection in the sight of My God. ³ Be mindful, therefore, of the lessons you have received and heard. Continually lay them to heart, and repent. If, however, you fail to rouse yourself and keep awake, I shall come upon you suddenly like a thief, and you will certainly not know the hour at which I shall come to judge you.

¹⁵ ("I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the man who keeps awake and guards his raiment for fear he walk about ill-clad, and his uncomeliness become manifest.")