Bible Verses About Watchfulness

Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)

Least if he come suddenly, he should finde you sleeping.

And those things that I say vnto you, I say vnto all men, Watch.

And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings and prayers, night and day.

And it came to passe in those dayes, that he went into a mountaine to praye, and spent the night in prayer to God.

Take heede therefore how ye heare: for whosoeuer hath, to him shall be giuen: and whosoeuer hath not, from him shalbe taken euen that which it seemeth that he hath.

Take heede therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkenesse.

Wherefore he said vnto them, Take heede, and beware of couetousnesse: for though a man haue abundance, yet his life standeth not in his riches.

Let your loynes be gird about and your lights burning,

And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.

Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde waking: verely I say vnto you, he will girde himselfe about, and make them to sit downe at table, and will come forth, and serue them.

And if he come in the seconde watch, or come in the third watch, and shall finde them so, blessed are those seruants.

Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged through.

Be ye also prepared therefore: for the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

Then Peter saide vnto him, Master, tellest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?

And the Lord saide, Who is a faithfull steward and wise, whom the master shall make ruler ouer his householde, to giue them their portion of meate in season?

Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

Of a trueth I say vnto you, that he wil make him ruler ouer all that he hath.

And he sayd, Take heede, that ye be not deceiued: for many will come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and the time draweth neere: follow ye not them therefore.

And when ye heare of warres and seditions, be not afraid: for these things must first come, but the ende foloweth not by and by.

Then said hee vnto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome,

And great earthquakes shall be in diuers places, and hunger, and pestilence, and fearefull things, and great signes shall there be from heauen.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

And this shall turne to you, for a testimoniall.

Lay it vp therefore in your heartes, that ye cast not before hand, what ye shall answere.