Bible Verses About Watchfulness

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

¶ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

¶ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

¶ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

¶ Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

¶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

¶ Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.