Bible Verses About Watchfulness

Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.

Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah’s remembrancers, take ye no rest,

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

See that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray.

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Therefore be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he hath.

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth;

and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;

the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not,

and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.