So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)
training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.
but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”
His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”
And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.
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