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Matthew 24:42
Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.
Matthew 24:42 · Bible in Basic English
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Matthew 24:42 in other translations
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
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In context
39 And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.
40 Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go;
41 Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.
42 Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.
43 But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.
44 Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.
45 Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?
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