You Must Be Ready
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e "Let your waist be girded and f your lamps burning;
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"and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.
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g "Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.
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"And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
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h "But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
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i "Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
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Then Peter said to Him, "Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?"
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And the Lord said, j "Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?
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"Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
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k "Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.
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l "But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,
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"the master of that servant will come on a m day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
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"And n that servant who o knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
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p "But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
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Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness.
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Matthew 25:1 - 13
Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
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Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.
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Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
Revelation 16:15
"Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."
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Matthew 24:44
Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man...
Matthew 25:13
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day n...
Mark 13:33
Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know ...
Luke 21:34
But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts b...
Luke 21:36
"Watch therefore, and pray always that you may ...
1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but l...
2 Peter 3:12
Looking for and hastening the coming of the day...
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Matthew 24:45
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?
Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.
Matthew 25:21
"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
1 Corinthians 4:2
Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.
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Matthew 24:47
Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.
Matthew 25:21
"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
Revelation 3:21
To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
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Matthew 24:48
"But if that evil servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,'
2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts.
2 Peter 3:4
And saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.
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1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Numbers 15:30
But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 25:2
Then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.
John 9:41
Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Acts 17:30
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
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James 4:17
Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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Leviticus 5:17
If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.
Numbers 15:29
You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.
1 Timothy 1:13
Although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
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