Readiness at Any Hour
Mark 13:33
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.BYZ and TR Be on your guard, stay alert, and pray!
- KJV
- Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
- WEB
- Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
- ASV
- Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
- LSV
- Take heed, watch and pray, for you have not known when the time is;
- YLT
- Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;
- DBY
- Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the time is:
- DRC
- Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.
- GNV
- Take heede: watch, and praie: for yee knowe not when the time is.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, Tyndale House, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include καὶ προσεύχεσθε (“and do pray”); NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort do not include this wording.
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- SBLGNT: ἀγρυπνεῖτε. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀγρυπνεῖτε; Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont add καὶ προσεύχεσθε.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- βλέπετε ἀγρυπνεῖτε, οὐκ οἴδατε γὰρ πότε ὁ καιρός ἐστιν·
- RP2018
- Βλέπετε, ἀγρυπνεῖτε καὶ προσεύχεσθε· οὐκ οἴδατε γὰρ πότε ὁ καιρός ἐστιν.
- TR-Boyd
- Βλέπετε, ἀγρυπνεῖτε καὶ προσεύχεσθε· οὐκ οἴδατε γὰρ πότε ὁ καιρός ἐστιν.
- SCR1894
- βλεπετε αγρυπνειτε και προσευχεσθε ουκ οιδατε γαρ ποτε ο καιρος εστιν
Who and where
◆ Holy Week◆ Olivet Discourse
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
WatchfulnessHeedMillennium, Premillennial ViewEarthJudgment, TheTemptationCommandmentsMark, the Gospel According toParousiaEschatology of the New Testament
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Cross-references most cited first
- Luke 12:40You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
- Romans 13:11–12And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us…
- Ephesians 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
- Revelation 16:15“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
- 1 Peter 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
- Matthew 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
- Luke 21:34–36But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of…
- 1 Peter 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
- Revelation 3:2Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
- Matthew 24:42–44Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would…
- Mark 14:37–38Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but…
- Matthew 26:40–41Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is…
- 1 Corinthians 16:13Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
- Mark 13:23So be on your guard; I have told you everything in advance.
- Mark 13:35–37Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning. Otherwise, he may arrive without notice and find…
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5–8For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at…
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