Bible verses about "alert" | MNT

³³ nor the Son, but only the Father. ³⁴ Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch; ³⁵ keep watch then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at cockcrow, or in the morning— ³⁶ lest he should come unexpectedly and find you sleeping; ³⁷ and what I say to you, I say to all. Be awake and on guard."

⁷ "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

²⁵ Then a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him. "Master," he said "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" ²⁶ And he said to him. "What is written in the Law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ "You must love the Lord your God," he answered, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." ²⁸ "You have answered right," said Jesus "do that and you shall live."

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites, ¹⁰ or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

⁸ If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

⁴¹ "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

³⁶ "So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

²² You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive; ²³ and to be made new in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

⁴² Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming.

³⁸ Keep watch, all of you, and pray that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.'

⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming.

¹³ So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

² You yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. ³ While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that "the Day" should come upon you like a bandit. ⁵ For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

⁸ Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.