Bible Verses About Watchfulness

So stay alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, with tears in my eyes, I never stopped warning you!

For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly won’t spare you!

Besides all this, you know at what point of history we stand; so it is high time for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; for the final deliverance is nearer than when we first came to trust.

What I am saying, brothers, is that there is not much time left: from now on a man with a wife should live as if he had none —

and those who are sad should live as if they weren’t, those who are happy as if they weren’t,

and those who deal in worldly affairs as if not engrossed in them — because the present scheme of things in this world won’t last much longer.

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that, after proclaiming the Good News to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Therefore, let anyone who thinks he is standing up be careful not to fall!

So let a person examine himself first, and then he may eat of the bread and drink from the cup;

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, behave like a mentsh, grow strong.

I have toiled and endured hardship, often not had enough sleep, been hungry and thirsty, frequently gone without food, been cold and naked.

Brothers, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should set him right, but in a spirit of humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won’t be tempted too.

Therefore, pay careful attention to how you conduct your life — live wisely, not unwisely.

as you pray at all times, with all kinds of prayers and requests, in the Spirit, vigilantly and persistently, for all God’s people.

beware of the dogs, those evildoers, the Mutilated!

Let everyone see how reasonable and gentle you are. The Lord is near!

Keep persisting in prayer, staying alert in it and being thankful.

And tell Archippus, “See that you complete the task you were given in the Lord.”

But you, brothers, are not in the dark, so that the Day should take you by surprise like a thief;

so let’s not be asleep, like the rest are; on the contrary, let us stay alert and sober.

People who sleep, sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.

But do test everything — hold onto what is good,

Pay attention to yourself and to the teaching, continue in it, for by so doing you will deliver both yourself and those who hear you.

But you, remain steady in every situation, endure suffering, do the work that a proclaimer of the Good News should, and do everything your service to God requires.

Therefore, we must pay much more careful heed to the things we have heard, so that we will not drift away.