But, if that servant should say in his heart, My lord is delaying to come, and shall begin to beat the manservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

"But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with gluttony and drunkenness, and anxieties pertaining to life, and that day come upon you suddenly as a snare;

And this, knowing the season, that it is time already for you to be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when ye believed.

So, then, let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

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

It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,

but hospitable, a lover of good, sober-minded, righteous, pious, temperate;

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Your

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked for you, to sift you as the wheat;

As

The Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the proclamation might be fully announced, and that all the gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion.

On this account, rejoice, ye Heavens, and ye who dwell in them! Woe to the earth, and to the sea! because the Devil went down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time.

General references

Watch, therefore, because ye know not the day, nor the hour!

And they besought Him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them."

Take heed, watch [and pray]; for ye know not when the time is.

that we might not be over-reached by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

neither give place to the Devil.