“But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Luke 12 contains 59 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.