But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

And then you know what this Crisis means, you know it is high time to waken up; for Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

Women in turn are to dress modestly and quietly in seemly garb; they are not to adorn themselves with plaits of hair, with gold or pearls or expensive finery,

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;

Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

Your

Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat,

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But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.

Rejoice for this, O heavens and ye that dwell in them! But woe to earth and sea! The devil has descended to you in fierce anger, knowing that his time is short."

General references

Keep on the watch then, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

so the spirits begged him saying, "Send us into the swine, that we may enter them,"

Take care, keep awake and pray; you never know the time.

in case Satan should take advantage of our position ??for I know his man?uvres!

give the devil no chance.