Bible Verses About Watchfulness: General references

Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.

Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:

Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:

Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.

Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:

And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel: Attend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the Lord thy God:

Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul.

This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.

And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and observe his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayst understand all thou dost, and whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself:

That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me, saying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.

Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked in my sight.

Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.

And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.

Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.

Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.

Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.

Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of Israel.

¶ BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.

Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.