So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revela
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is ne
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and le
Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the d
It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the pres
Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My Go
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand b
But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be br
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance i
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to se
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying a
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider u
When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Keep watch!”
Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with b
Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He
In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospita
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hop
Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.