38They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.


In Context

35 |Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him.|

Luke 12:38 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find [them] so, blessed are those servants.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:38It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them'so blessed are those'servants .

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:38And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find them thus, blessed are those bondmen.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:38and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find it so, happy are those servants.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.