Luke 12:37

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them.

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  • Matt 24:42 : 42 Wake therfore because ye knowe not what houre youre master wyll come.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 And I herde a voyce from heven sayinge vnto me: wryte. Blessed are the deed which here after dye in the LORde even soo sayth the sprete: that they maye rest fro their laboures but their workes shall folowe them.
  • John 13:4-5 : 4 he rose from supper and layde a syde his vpper garmentes and toke a towell and gyrd him selfe. 5 After that poured he water into a basyn and beganne to wash his disciples fete and to wype them with the towell wherwith he was gyrde.
  • 1 Cor 2:9 : 9 But as it is written: The eye hath not sene and the eare hath not hearde nether have entred into the herte of man ye thinges which God hath prepared for them that love him.
  • Phil 1:21 : 21 For Christ is to me lyfe and deeth is to me a vauntage.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 I am constrayned of two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed and to be with Christ which thinge is best of all.
  • 2 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 I have fought a good fight and have fulfilled my course and have kept the fayth. 8 From hence forth is layde vp for me a croune of rightewesnes which the LORde that is a righteous iudge shall geve me at that daye: not to me only but vnto all them that love his commynge.
  • 1 Pet 5:1-4 : 1 The elders which are amonge you I exhorte which am also an elder and a witnes of the affliccions of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe opened: 2 se that ye fede Christes flocke which is amonge you takynge the oversyght of them not as though ye were compelled therto but willyngly: not for the desyre of filthy lucre but of a good mynde. 3 not as though ye were LORdes over the parisshes: but that ye be a insample to the flocke. 4 And when the chef shepheerde shall appere ye shall receave an incorruptible croune of glorye.
  • 2 Pet 1:11 : 11 Ye and by this meanes an entrynge in shall be ministred vnto you aboundantly in to the everlastynge kyngdome of oure LORde and saveoure Iesus Christ.
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Wherfore derly beloved seynge yt ye loke for soche thynges be diliget that ye maye be founde of him in peace wt out spotte and vndefiled
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 To him that overcommeth will I graunte to sytt with me in my seate evyn as I overcam and have sytten with my father in his seate.
  • Rev 7:17 : 17 For the lambe which ys in the myddes of the seate shall fede them and shall ledde them vnto fountaynes of lyuynge water and god shall wype awaye all teares from their eyes.
  • Rev 14:3-4 : 3 And they songe as it were a newe songe before the seate and before the foure beestes and the elders and no man coulde learne that songe but the hondred and xliiii.M. which were redemed from the erth. 4 These are they which were not defyled with wemen for they are virgyns. These folowe the lambe whither soever he goeth. These were redemed from men beynge the fyrste frutes vnto God and to the lamb
  • Matt 24:45-47 : 45 If there be any faithfull servaut and wyse whome his master hath made ruler over his housholde to geve the meate in season covenient: 46 happy is that servaunt whom his master (when he cometh) shall finde so doinge. 47 Verely I saye vnto you he shall make him ruler over all his goodes.
  • Matt 25:20-23 : 20 Then came he yt had receaved fyve talentes and brought other fyve talentes sayinge: master thou deliveredst vnto one fyve talentes: beholde I have gayned wt the fyve talentes moo. 21 The his master sayde vnto him: well good servaut and faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell I will make the ruler over moche: entre in into thy masters ioye. 22 Also he that receaved.ii. talentes came and sayde: master thou deliveredest vnto me.ii. talentes: beholde I have wone.ii. other talentes with them. 23 And his master sayde vnto him well good servaunt and faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell I wyll make the ruler over moche: go in into thy masters ioye.
  • Luke 12:43 : 43 happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge.
  • Luke 17:8 : 8 and wolde not rather saye to him dresse wherwith I maye sup and gyrde vp thy selfe and serve me tyll I have eaten and dronken: and afterwarde eate thou and drinke thou?
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 Watche therfore continually and praye that ye maye obtayne grace to flye all this that shall come and that ye maye stonde before the sonne of man.
  • John 12:26 : 26 If eny man mynister vnto me let him folowe me and where I am there shall also my minister be. And yf eny man minister vnto me him will my father honoure.

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  • 90%

    38 And yf he come in the seconde watche ye if he come in the thyrde watche and shall fynde them soo happy are those servauntes.

    39 This vnderstonde that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre ye these wolde come he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp.

    40 Be ye prepared therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

  • 87%

    42 And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:

    43 happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge.

    44 Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

    45 But and yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cominge and shall beginne to smyte the servauntes and maydens and to eate and drinke and to be dronken:

    46 the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not and at an houre when he is not ware and will devyde him and will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.

    47 The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes.

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    35 Let youre loynes be gerdde about and youre lightes brennynge

    36 and ye youre selves lyke vnto men that wayte for their master when he will returne fro a weddinge: that assone as he cometh and knocketh they maye ope vnto him.

  • Matt 24:42-51
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    85%

    42 Wake therfore because ye knowe not what houre youre master wyll come.

    43 Of this be sure that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre the thefe wolde come: he wolde suerly watche and not suffre his housse to be broke vppe.

    44 Therfore be ye also redy for in ye houre ye thinke he wolde not: wyll the sonne of ma come.

    45 If there be any faithfull servaut and wyse whome his master hath made ruler over his housholde to geve the meate in season covenient:

    46 happy is that servaunt whom his master (when he cometh) shall finde so doinge.

    47 Verely I saye vnto you he shall make him ruler over all his goodes.

    48 But and yf that evill servaut shall saye in his herte my master wyll defer his comynge

    49 and beginne to smyte his felowes ye and to eate and to drinke with the dronke:

    50 that servauntes master wyll come in adaye when he loketh not for him and in an houre yt he is not ware of

    51 and wyll devyde him and geve him his rewarde with ypocrites. There shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of tethe.

  • Luke 17:7-9
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    7 Who is it of you yf he had a servaute plowinge or fedinge catell that wolde saye vnto him when he were come from the felde Goo quickly and syt doune to meate:

    8 and wolde not rather saye to him dresse wherwith I maye sup and gyrde vp thy selfe and serve me tyll I have eaten and dronken: and afterwarde eate thou and drinke thou?

    9 Doeth he thanke that servaunt because he dyd that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not.

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    34 As a man which is gone in to a straunge countrey and hath lefte hys housse and geven auctorite to his servautes and to every man hys worke and commaunded the porter to watche.

    35 Watche therfore for ye knowe not when the master of ye housse will come whether at eve or at mydnyght whether at the cocke crowynge or in the daunynge:

    36 lest yf he come sodenly he shuld fynde you slepynge.

    37 And that I saye vnto you I saye vnto all men watche.

  • 19 After a longe season ye LORde of those servauntes came and rekened with the.

  • 27 For whether is greater he that sitteth at meate: or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meate? And I am amoge you as he that ministreth.

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    15 When one of them that sate at meate also hearde that he sayde vnto him: happy is he that eateth breed in the kyngdome of God.

    16 Then sayd he to him. A certayne man ordened a greate supper and bade many

    17 and sent his servaunt at supper tyme to saye to them that wer bidden come: for all thinges are now redy.

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    12 He sayde therfore: a certayne noble man wet into a farre countre to receave him a kyngdome and then to come agayne.

    13 And he called his ten servauntes and delyvered them ten pounde sayinge vnto them: by and sell till I come.

  • 21 And the servaunt went and brought his master worde therof. Then was the good man of the housse displeased and sayd to his servaut: Goo out quickly into ye stretes and quarters of the cite and bringe in hidder the poore and the maymed and the halt and the blynde.

  • Matt 22:3-4
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    3 and sent forth his servantes to call them that were byd to the weddinge and they wolde not come.

    4 Ageyne he sent forth other servauntes sayinge: Tell them which are bydden: beholde I have prepared my dynner myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled and all thinges are redy come vnto the mariage.

  • 13 Watche therefore: for ye knowe nether the daye nor yet the houre when the sonne of man shall come.

  • 15 And it came to passe when he was come agayne and had receaved his kyngdome he comaunded these servautes to be called to him (to whom he gave his money) to witt what every man had done.

  • 24 For I saye vnto you that none of those men which were bidde shall tast of my supper.

  • 26 If eny man mynister vnto me let him folowe me and where I am there shall also my minister be. And yf eny man minister vnto me him will my father honoure.

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    30 And cast yt vnprofitable servaunt into vtter dercknes: there shalbe wepynge and gnasshinge of teeth.

    31 When the sonne of ma cometh in his glorie and all the holy angels wt him then shall he syt vpon the seate of his glorie

  • 15 Beholde I come as a thefe. Happy is he that watcheth and kepeth his garmentes Lest he be founde naked and men se his filthynes.

  • 23 Therfore is ye kingdome of heven lykened vnto a certayne kynge which wolde take a countis of his servauntis.

  • 10 And whill they went to bye ye brydgrome came: and they yt were redy went in with him to ye weddinge and the gate was shett vp:

  • 2 And when the tyme was come he sent to the tennauntes a servaunt that he myght receave of the tenauntes of the frute of the vyneyarde.

  • 7 He put forthe a similitude to ye gestes whe he marked how they preased to the hyest roumes and sayd vnto the:

  • 40 When the LORde of the vyneyarde commeth what will he do wt those husbandme?