Bible Verses About Watchfulness

The foolish ones said to the sensible ones, `Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

But he answered, `Indeed! I tell you, I don't know you!'

So stay alert, because you know neither the day nor the hour.

and he said to them, "My heart is so filled with sadness that I could die! Remain here and stay awake with me."

He returned to the talmidim and found them sleeping. He said to Kefa, "Were you so weak that you couldn't stay awake with me for even an hour?

Stay awake, and pray that you will not be put to the test -- the spirit indeed is eager, but human nature is weak."

He also said to them, "Pay attention to what you are hearing! The measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you -- and more besides!

"But you, watch yourselves! They will hand you over to the local Sanhedrins, you will be beaten up in synagogues, and on my account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

Indeed, the Good News has to be proclaimed first to all the Goyim.

Now when they arrest you and bring you to trial, don't worry beforehand about what to say. Rather, say whatever is given you when the time comes; for it will not be just you speaking, but the Ruach HaKodesh.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death;

and everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out till the end will be delivered.

"Now when you see the abomination that causes devastation standing where it ought not to be" (let the reader understand the allusion), "that will be the time for those in Y'hudah to escape to the hills.

If someone is on the roof, he must not go down and enter his house to take any of his belongings;

if someone is in the field, he must not turn back to get his coat.

What a terrible time it will be for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

Pray that it may not happen in winter.

For there will be worse trouble at that time than there has ever been from the very beginning, when God created the universe, until now; and there will be nothing like it again.

Indeed, if God had not limited the duration of the trouble, no one would survive; but for the sake of the elect, those whom he has chosen, he has limited it.

"At that time, if anyone says to you, `Look! Here's the Messiah!' or, `See, there he is!' -- don't believe him!

There will appear false Messiahs and false prophets performing signs and wonders for the purpose, if possible, of misleading the chosen.

But you, watch out! I have told you everything in advance!

However, when that day and hour will come, no one knows -- not the angels in heaven, not the Son, just the Father.

Stay alert! Be on your guard! For you do not know when the time will come.

"It's like a man who travels away from home, puts his servants in charge, each with his own task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert.