Luke 12:37

New English Translation

Blessed are those slaves whom their master finds alert when he returns! I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, have them take their place at the table, and will come and wait on them!

Cross References

Isaiah 62:5

As a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Jeremiah 32:41

I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them firmly in the land.’

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is in your midst; he is a warrior who can deliver. He takes great delight in you; he renews you by his love; he shouts for joy over you.”

Matthew 24:42

“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Luke 12:36

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

Luke 12:43

Blessed is that slave whom his master finds at work when he returns.

Luke 17:8

Won’t the master instead say to him, ‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’?

Luke 21:36

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 22:27

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

John 12:26

If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

Philippians 1:21

For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Philippians 1:23

I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

2 Peter 1:11

For thus an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be richly provided for you.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence.

Revelation 14:13

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: ‘Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them.”

Revelation 16:15

(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)

Revelation 3:21

I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Revelation 7:17

because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”