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


In Context

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.|

41 Peter said to him, |Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?|

42 The Lord said, |Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

Luke 12:40 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:40Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:40You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:40Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:40Be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:40And ye therefore, be ye ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think it, the Son of man comes.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:40Be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:40Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:40and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:40Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not.