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.
Luke 21:34 in other translations
| BSB | But 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. |
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| WEB | “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. |
| ASV | 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: |
| YLT | ‘And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, |
| DARBY | But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares; |
| BBE | But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net: |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Luke 21:34 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 21:34-38
Barnes' Notes
"Be continually expecting these things. Do not forgetAnd from this we may learn--what alas! we may from the lives of many professing Christians --that there is need of cautioning the disciples of Jesus now that they do not indulge in the festivities of this life, and forget that they are to die and come to judgment. How many, alas! who bear the Christian name, have forgotten this caution of the Saviour, and live as if their lives were secure; as if they feared not death; as if there were no heaven and no judgment! Christians should feel that they are soon to die, and that their portion is not in this life; and, feeling this, they should be looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God.
them, and do not be secure and satisfied with this
life and the good things which it furnishes. Do not
suffer yourselves to be drawn into the fashions of
the world; to be conformed to its customs; to partake
of its feasts and revelry; and so these calamities
shall come upon you when you least expect them."
Overcharged. Literally, be made heavy, as is the case with those who have eaten and drunken too much.
Surfeiting. Excessive eating and drinking, so as to oppress the body; indulgence in the pleasures of the table. This word does not include intoxication, but merely indulgence in food and drink, though the food and drink should be in themselves lawful.
Drunkenness. Intoxication, intemperance in drinking. The ancients were not acquainted with the poison that we chiefly use on which to become drunk. They had no distilled spirits. They became intoxicated on wine, and strong drink made of a mixture of dates, honey, &c. All nations have contrived some way to become intoxicated--to bring in folly, and disease, and poverty, and death, by drunkenness; and in nothing is the depravity of men more manifest than in thus endeavouring to hasten the ravages of crime and death.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 21:29-38
Christ tells his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by. He charges them to look upon the ruin of the Jewish nation as near. Yet this race and family of Abraham shall not be rooted out; it shall survive as a nation, and be found as prophesied, when the Son of man shall be revealed. He cautions them against being secure and sensual. This command is given to all Christ's disciples, Take…
Luke 21:34 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 21:34
- Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
- Luke 12:45-46
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- Luke 12:40
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2-8
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 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. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. …
- 1 Peter 4:3-7
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: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. …
- 1 Corinthians 6:10
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
- Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
- 2 Peter 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.
- Hosea 4:11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
- Mark 13:35-37
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
- 1 Corinthians 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 no not to eat.
- Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
8; 17:3; Mr 13:9; Heb 12:15
your hearts.
12:45; Le 10:9; Pr 21:4; Isa 28:7; 56:10-12; Ho 4:11; Ro 13:11-13
1Th 5:6-8; 1Pe 4:3-7
surfeiting.
De 29:19; 1Sa 25:36; Isa 28:1-3; 1Co 5:11; 6:10; Ga 5:20
cares.
8:14; 10:41; Mt 13:22; Mr 4:19; Php 4:6
that day.
12:46; Ps 35:8; Mt 24:39-50; Mr 13:35-37; 1Th 5:2-4; 2Pe 3:10,14
Re 3:3
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Context
- Luke 21:33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
- 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.
- Luke 21:35
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:34 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y mirad por vosotros, que vuestros corazones no sean cargados de glotonería y embriaguez, y de los cuidados de esta vida, y venga de repente sobre vosotros aquel día. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et prenez garde à vous-mêmes, de peur que vos cœurs ne soient appesantis par la gourmandise et l’ivrognerie, et par les soucis de la vie, et que ce jour-là ne vous surprenne inopinément; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Hütet euch aber, daß eure Herzen nicht etwa beschwert werden durch Völlerei und Trunkenheit und Lebenssorgen, und jener Tag plötzlich über euch hereinbreche; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Attendite autem vobis, ne forte graventur corda vestra in crapula, et ebrietate, et curis hujus vitæ, et superveniat in vos repentina dies illa: |