1 Peter 1:13
Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.
1 Peter 5:8
Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.
Luke 12:35
"Have your girdles on, and let your lamps be alight;
Luke 17:30
Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man.
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth and putting on the breastplate of uprightness
Luke 17:8
and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?
Luke 21:34-35
"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;
Romans 13:13
Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy.
Romans 15:4-13
For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction, so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford.
1 Corinthians 1:7
so that there is no gift of God in which you consciously come short while patiently waiting for the reappearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 13:13
And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.
2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction now--rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, attended by His mighty angels.
2 Timothy 4:5
But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.
2 Timothy 4:8
From this time onward there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who love the thought of His Appearing.
Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.
Hebrews 6:19
That hope we have as an anchor of the soul--an anchor that can neither break nor drag. It passes in behind the veil,
Hebrews 9:28
so the Christ also, having been once offered in sacrifice in order that He might bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, separated from sin, to those who are eagerly expecting Him, to make their salvation complete.
Hebrews 10:35
Therefore do not cast from you your confident hope, for it will receive a vast reward.
1 Peter 1:3-9
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 3:15
but in your hearts consecrate Christ as Lord, being always ready to make your defence to any one who asks from you a reason for the hope which you cherish.
1 John 3:3
And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies himself so as to be as pure as He is.