Luke 12:35 (YLT)

Passage

`Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

Nearby Context

Luke 12:33 sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

Luke 12:34 for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.

Luke 12:35 `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

Luke 12:36 and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

Luke 12:37 `Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "loins", "girded", "lamps", and "burning". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "loins" and "girded", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 34's "for where your treasure is there also..." into verse 36's "and ye like to men waiting for...", so "loins" and "girded" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "loins" and "girded" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.