Luke 21:34–36
Don't let your hearts fill with excess and worries; stay awake and pray
Study it word by word34But watch yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day come upon you suddenly
35like a trap; for it will come in on all those who dwell on the face of all the earth.
36But stay awake at every time, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
In its context
32Truly I tell you that this generation will certainly not pass away until all things take place.
33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.
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37Now during the days he was teaching in the temple, but at night he would go out and spend the night on the mount called the Mount of Olives.
38And all the people would come early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.
Its words in the original
- ΠροσέχετεProsechete· pay attention, beware
Pay attention to, take heed; "watch out", be on guard against something; also give oneself to something.
- μήποτεmēpote· lest, perhaps
Lest, so that not; perhaps.
- βαρηθῶσινbarēthōsin· be heavy, weigh down
Weigh down, burden; in the passive, be heavy, be weighed down.
- καρδίαιkardiai· heart
Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.
- κραιπάλῃkraipalēi· dissipation
Dissipation: wild drinking and its aftereffects.
- μέθῃmethēi· drunkenness
Drunkenness.
- μερίμναιςmerimnais· worry
Worry, anxiety.
- βιωτικαῖςbiōtikais· of daily life
Of this life, of daily life; ordinary matters.
- ἐπιστῇepistēi· stand by, come upon
Stand by, appear suddenly beside someone; come upon, arrive; of an event, be at hand, come on.
- αἰφνίδιοςaiphnidios· sudden
Sudden, unexpected.
- ἡμέραhēmera· day
Day. "In the days of" someone: in their time.
- παγίςpagis· trap, snare
Trap, snare.
- ἐπεισελεύσεταιepeiseleusetai· come upon, arrive
Come upon, arrive; of an event, come upon someone, overtake; of a time, come.
- καθημένουςkathēmenous· sit
Be sitting; dwell.
- πρόσωπονprosōpon· face, presence
Face; also presence, appearance.
- γῆςgēs· earth, land
Earth: the ground, a country, or the whole world.
- ἀγρυπνεῖτεagrypneite· keep alert
Stay awake, keep alert.
- καιρῷkairōi· time, right time
Time, the appointed moment.
- δεόμενοιdeomenoi· ask, beg
Ask, plead, beg.
- κατισχύσητεkatischysēte· prevail, overpower
Prevail against, overpower.
- ἐκφυγεῖνekphygein· escape
Escape, flee away.
- μέλλονταmellonta· be about to
Be about to, be going to do something.
- γίνεσθαιginesthai· become, happen
Become, happen, come about; be born.
- σταθῆναιstathēnai· stand, set
Stand, stand still, stop; also set, establish.
- ἔμπροσθενemprosthen· before, in front of
In front of, before.
- υἱοῦhuiou· son, Son
Son. Also descendant: "son of David" means one of King David's family, and is a title of the promised Messiah.
- ἀνθρώπουanthrōpou· human being, man
Human being, person, man (without distinguishing male or female).