But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begins to beat the younger servants, and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be not oppressed with revelling and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you suddenly;

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober.

and in like manner also, that women in becoming apparel with modesty and sobriety adorn themselves, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying,

That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Your

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, to sift like wheat;

As

but the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the word should be fully declared by me, and all the nations should hear, and I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and those who dwell in them; woe to the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short time.

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Watch, therefore, for you know not the day nor the hour.

And they besought him, saying, Send us to the swine, that we may go into them.

Observe, watch, for you know not when the time is.

that we may not be circumvented by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

neither give place to the devil.