Matthew 24:42 Parallel Translations
NASB: "Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: "Therefore, be alert, because you don't know on what day your Lord will return.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
ASV: Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
BBE: Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.
DBY: Watch therefore, for ye know not in what hour your Lord comes.
ERV: Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
WEY: Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.
WBS: Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord cometh.
WEB: Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
YLT: 'Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;
Matthew 24:42 Cross References
XREF:Matthew 24:43 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Matthew 24:44 "For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

Matthew 25:10 "And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

Matthew 25:13 "Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

Luke 12:39 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Luke 21:36 "But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man." (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 24:42 {11} Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
(11) An example of the horrible carelessness of men in those things in which they ought to be most careful.
PNT: 24:42 Watch therefore. Because the coming will be unexpected. Mark adds, and pray (Mr 13:33).
WES: 24:42 Ye know not what hour your Lord cometh - Either to require your soul of you, or to avenge himself of this nation. Mark 13:33; Luke 12:35; 21:34.
MHC: 24:42-51 To watch for Christ's coming, is to maintain that temper of mind which we would be willing that our Lord should find us in. We know we have but a little time to live, we cannot know that we have a long time to live; much less do we know the time fixed for the judgment. Our Lord's coming will be happy to those that shall be found ready, but very dreadful to those that are not. If a man, professing to be the servant of Christ, be an unbeliever, covetous, ambitious, or a lover of pleasure, he will be cut off. Those who choose the world for their portion in this life, will have hell for their portion in the other life. May our Lord, when he cometh, pronounce us blessed, and present us to the Father, washed in his blood, purified by his Spirit, and fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
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