Bible Verses About Watchfulness: Danger of remissness in

`And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

`And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping,

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.