Matthew 24:42 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Watch therefore [give strict attention, be cautious and active], for you do not know in what kind of a day [whether a near or remote one] your Lord is coming.

American Standard Version (1901)

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

Common English Bible

Therefore, stay alert! You don’t know what day the Lord is coming.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come.

Matthew 24:42 Cross References

Matthew 24:36

But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.

Matthew 24:43

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

Matthew 24:44

Therefore be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Matthew 25:10

And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and the door was shut.

Matthew 25:13

Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

Luke 21:36

But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Romans 13:11

And this, knowing the season, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Revelation 16:15

(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)