# Luke 12.36

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**Book:** [Luke](/codex/luke/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 34. <span class="rl-speech">For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</span> 35. <span class="rl-speech">Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;</span>
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> **36. <span class="rl-speech">and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may straightway open unto him.</span>**
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> 37. <span class="rl-speech">Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them.</span> 38. <span class="rl-speech">And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them so, blessed are those servants.</span> (Luke 12:34-38, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 34. <span class="rl-speech">For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</span> 35. <span class="rl-speech">“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.</span>
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> **36. <span class="rl-speech">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.</span>**
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> 37. <span class="rl-speech">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.</span> 38. <span class="rl-speech">They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.</span> (Luke 12:34-38, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 34. <span class="rl-speech">For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</span> 35. <span class="rl-speech">Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;</span>
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> **36. <span class="rl-speech">And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.</span>**
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> 37. <span class="rl-speech">Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.</span> 38. <span class="rl-speech">And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.</span> (Luke 12:34-38, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 34. <span class="rl-speech">for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.</span> 35. <span class="rl-speech">'Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,</span>
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> **36. <span class="rl-speech">and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.</span>**
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> 37. <span class="rl-speech">'Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;</span> 38. <span class="rl-speech">and 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.</span> (Luke 12:34-38, YLT)

## Setting

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## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

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## Quoted in

**Concepts:**

- [Jesus Said](/codex/jesus-said/), via [Luke 12](/codex/luke-12/)

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## Notes

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## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.