Bible Verses About Watchfulness

Level the path for your feet, let all your ways be properly prepared;

How happy the person who listens to me, who watches daily at my gates and waits outside my doors.

Avoiding evil is the highway of the upright; he who watches his step preserves his life.

He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who lives by wisdom will escape.

[Isra'el's] watchmen are, all of them, blind; they don't know anything. They are all dumb dogs, unable to bark, lying there dreaming, loving to sleep.

I have posted watchmen on your walls, Yerushalayim; they will never fall silent, neither by day nor by night. You who call on ADONAI, give yourselves no rest;

"Human being, I have appointed you to be a watchman for the house of Isra'el. When you hear a word from my mouth, you are to warn them for me.

A destroyer has risen in front of your face; guard the ramparts, keep watch on the road, brace yourselves, marshall all your strength.

I will stand at my watchpost; I will station myself on the rampart. I will look to see what [God] will say through me and what I will answer when I am reproved.

And hasn't he made [them] one [flesh] in order to have spiritual blood-relatives? For what the one [flesh] seeks is a seed from God. Therefore, take heed to your spirit, and don't break faith with the wife of your youth.

"Be careful not to parade your acts of tzedakah in front of people in order to be seen by them! If you do, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

So when Yeshua said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves against the hametz of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim,"

See that you never despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually seeing the face of my Father in heaven.

Yeshua replied: "Watch out! Don't let anyone fool you!

So stay alert, because you don't know on what day your Lord will come.

But you do know this: had the owner of the house known when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Therefore you too must always be ready, for the Son of Man will come when you are not expecting him.

"Who is the faithful and sensible servant whose master puts him in charge of the household staff, to give them their food at the proper time?

It will go well with that servant if he is found doing his job when his master comes.

Yes, I tell you that he will put him in charge of all he owns.

But if that servant is wicked and says to himself, `My master is taking his time';

and he starts beating up his fellow servants and spends his time eating and drinking with drunkards;

then his master will come on a day the servant does not expect, at a time he doesn't know;

and he will cut him in two and put him with the hypocrites, where people will wail and grind their teeth!

Now the bridegroom was late, so they all went to sleep.