Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to brin
But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that
So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on
Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the ho
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope
But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, no
For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encourage
“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terri
Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Je
This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in yo
and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed fro
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him
Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you may