Bible Verses About Watchfulness

watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning;

lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'

and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,

`See, therefore, how ye hear, for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever may not have, also what he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him.'

take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

`Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

`Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find it so, happy are those servants.

`And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?'

And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

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

truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him.

And he said, `See--ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying--I am he , and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately.'

Then said he to them, `Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,

great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;

and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

and it shall become to you for a testimony.

`Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,