Watchfulness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Watchfulness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?” The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?…
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Luke 21:36 NT
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
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with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
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Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
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Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
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Mark 13:33 NT
Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
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Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
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Psalms 141:3 OT
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
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Habakkuk 2:1 OT
I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
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Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
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Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
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Mark 13:35 NT
Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
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Mark 13:36 NT
lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
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1 Peter 5:8 NT
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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Luke 12:37 NT
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.
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“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
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Isaiah 56:10 OT
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
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For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
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But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in…
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Matthew 25:5 NT
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
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Matthew 25:8 NT
The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
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But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
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Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.