Bible verses about "alert" | WPNT

³³ Watch! Keep alert! Pray! Because you do not know when that time will be. ³⁴ It is like a man off on a journey, having left his house and given the authority to his slaves, and to each his work; and he commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. ³⁵ Therefore be watchful, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming—at evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or early morning— ³⁶ lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. ³⁷ The things I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”

⁷ If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.

²⁵ And then, a certain lawyer stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” ²⁶ So He said to him: “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” ²⁷ In answer he said: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and, your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁸ So He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live!”

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely. ¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

⁸ If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth is not in us.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit on its part is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

³⁶ So be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that are about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

²² that you put away, concerning your former way of life, the old man (that keeps on being corrupted by the deceitful desires), ²³ and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and put on the new man, created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

⁴² So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.

³⁸ Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

⁴⁴ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour that you do not suppose.

¹³ Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, staying sober, rest your hope fully upon the grace being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ —

² for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes just like a thief in the night. ³ For whenever they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction is standing near them, like labor pains to a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this Day should come upon you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay alert and sober; ⁷ because those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night; ⁸ but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet of hope of salvation. ⁹ For God did not appoint us to undergo wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit, using every prayer and petition, yes being watchful to this end with all perseverance and petition for all the saints

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour;