Bible Verses About Watchfulness

`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

for if God the natural branches did not spare--lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened--that both those having wives may be as not having;

and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;

and those using this world, as not using it up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

so that he who is thinking to stand--let him observe, lest he fall.

and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--

look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord is near;

In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;

and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,