Bible Verses About Watchfulness

Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.

O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.

A highway of the upright is , `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.

Blind are his watchmen--all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.

`On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,

that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.

Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do reply to my reproof.

And He did not make one only , And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone ! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;

and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray,

`Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

`Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

verily I say to you, that over all his substance he will set him.

`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,