Keep your loins girt and your lamps lit,
Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,
So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.
Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;
and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.