Quotes About Watchfulness

until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!

I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.

Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”

But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.

Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

At midnight the cry rang out: ëHere is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!í

Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.

“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy.

Then He returned to the disciples and said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”

Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.