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Luke 21:34

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

KJV

Προσέχετε δὲ ἑαυτοῖς μήποτε βαρηθῶσιν ὑμῶν αἱ καρδίαι ἐν κραιπάλῃ καὶ μέθῃ καὶ μερίμναις βιωτικαῖς, καὶ ἐπιστῇ ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς αἰφνίδιος ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη

Greek NT

Attendite autem vobis, ne forte graventur corda vestra in crapula, et ebrietate, et curis hujus vitæ, et superveniat in vos repentina dies illa :

Vulgate

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

ASV

And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἰφνίδιος
aiphnidios
adjective · 2×
βαρέω
bareo
verb · 6×
βιωτικός
biotikos
adjective · 3×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
κραιπάλη
kraipale
noun · 1×
μέθη
methe
noun · 3×
μέριμνα
merimna
noun · 6×
μήποτε
mepote
adverb · 25×
προσέχω
prosecho
verb · 24×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἐφίστημι
ephistemi
verb · 20×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ὑμῶν αἱ καρδίαι | NIV/RP: ὑμῶν αἱ καρδίαι | WH/Treg: αἱ καρδίαι ὑμῶν
  • ὑμῶν αἱ καρδίαιSBLGNT
  • ὑμῶν αἱ καρδίαιReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • αἱ καρδίαι ὑμῶνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐπιστῇ ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς αἰφνίδιος | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐπιστῇ ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς αἰφνίδιος | RP: αἰφνίδιος ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἐπιστῇ
  • ἐπιστῇ ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς αἰφνίδιοςSBLGNT
  • ἐπιστῇ ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς αἰφνίδιοςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • αἰφνίδιος ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἐπιστῇRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2612In Jesus "the Kingdom of God is at hand."72 He calls his hearers to conversion and faith, but also to watchfulness. In prayer the disciple keeps watch, attentive to Him Who Is and Him Who Comes, in memory of his first coming in the lowliness of the flesh, and in the hope of his second coming in glory.73 In communion with their Master, the disciples' prayer is a battle; only by …
The prophets were sent from one and the same Father from whom the Son was sent. 1. Which [God] the Lord does not reject, nor does He say that the prophets [spoke] from another god than His Father; nor from any other essence, but from one and the same Father; nor that any other being made the things in the world, except His own Father, when He speaks as follows in His teaching: …
Men are possessed of free will, and endowed with the faculty of making a choice. It is not true, therefore, that some are by nature good, and others bad. 1. This expression [of our Lord], How often would I have gathered your children together, and you would not, Matthew 23:37 set forth the ancient law of human liberty, because God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, pos…
Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n
  • 1Cor 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n
  • 1Cor 6:10 — Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • 1Cor 7:31 — And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
  • 1Cor 7:35 — And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
  • 1Cor 15:19 — If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
  • 1Pet 1:13 — Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1Pet 4:3 — For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • 1Pet 4:7 — But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 1Sam 25:36 — And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or
  • 1Sam 30:16 — And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philis
  • 1Thess 5:2 — For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
  • 1Thess 5:3 — For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • 1Thess 5:7 — For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
  • 1Tim 4:16 — Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
  • 2Pet 3:10 — But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
  • 2Pet 3:14 — Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
  • Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
  • Deut 11:16 — Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
  • Deut 29:19 — And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thir
  • Eccl 9:12 — For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly u
  • Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
  • Gal 5:20 — Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
  • Gal 5:21 — Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Gen 27:14 — And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
  • Heb 12:1 — Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is
  • Heb 12:15 — Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
  • Hos 4:11 — Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
  • Hos 4:11 — Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
  • Isa 5:11 — Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
  • Isa 5:14 — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
  • Isa 21:4 — My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
  • Isa 28:1 — Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
  • Isa 28:7 — But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way t
  • Isa 28:7 — But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way t
  • Isa 56:10 — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Isa 56:12 — Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
  • Job 1:13 — And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: