Luke 12:38 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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 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 25:6

But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.

Luke 12:39

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