Luke 12:38 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁸ And if he comes between nine o’clock and midnight or between midnight and three o’clock in the morning and finds them being watchful, those slaves will be blessed [for doing so].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ If he comes in the second watch (before midnight) or the third watch (after midnight), and finds them so, blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are those servants!

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Happy are those whom he finds alert, even if he comes at midnight or just before dawn.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ And if he will return in the second watch, or if in the third watch, and if he will find them to be so: then blessed are those servants.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Luke 12:38 Cross References

Matthew 24:43

But you should know this: if the owner of a house had known when a thief was coming, he would have been watching so as not to allow his house to be broken into.

Matthew 25:6

Then at midnight someone shouted, ‘Look, the [bride and] groom are here. Come on, let us go out and meet them.’

Luke 12:39

But you should realize this, if the owner of the house had known exactly when the burglar was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.