1 Thessalonians 5:6

So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.

Luke 22:46

And said to them, Why sleep ye? Having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope entirely for the grace brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 24:42

Watch therefore, because ye know not at what hour your Lord comes.

Romans 13:11-14

And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.

Jonah 1:6

So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.

Matthew 13:25

But while the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst the wheat, and went away.

Matthew 25:5

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Matthew 25:13

Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the son of man comes.

Matthew 26:38

Then Jesus says to them, My soul is deeply grieved, as far as of death. Remain ye here and watch with me.

Matthew 26:40-41

And he comes to the disciples, and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, So ye could not watch with me one hour.

Mark 13:34-35

like a man abroad, having left his house, and having given authority to his bondmen, and to each man his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

Mark 13:37

And what I say to you I say to all, watch!

Mark 14:37-38

And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, Do thou sleep? Could thou not watch one hour?

Luke 12:37

Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.

Luke 12:39

But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Luke 21:36

Watch ye therefore, making supplication at all times, so that ye may be considered worthy to escape all these things going to happen, and to stand before the Son of man.

Acts 20:31

Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Watch ye, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Ephesians 5:14

Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

Ephesians 6:18

praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

Philippians 4:5

Let your meekness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

Colossians 4:2

Continue in prayer, being vigilant in it with thankfulness.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

1 Timothy 2:9

And similarly, the women to adorn themselves in disciplined decorum, with reverence and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive apparel,

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

1 Timothy 3:2

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

1 Timothy 3:11

The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.

2 Timothy 4:5

But be thou sober in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, bring thy ministry to fullness.

Titus 2:6

Likewise exhort the younger men to be sober-minded.

Titus 2:12

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

Revelation 3:2

Become thou watchful, and strengthen the remaining things that thou were going to throw away, for I have not found thy works made complete before my God.

Revelation 16:15

(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, so that he may not walk naked, and they see his shame.)

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Let us not

Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.
Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.
Matthew 13:25
But while the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 25:5
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
Mark 14:37
And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, Do thou sleep? Could thou not watch one hour?
Luke 22:46
And said to them, Why sleep ye? Having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.
Romans 13:11
And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

Watch

Matthew 24:42
Watch therefore, because ye know not at what hour your Lord comes.
Matthew 25:13
Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the son of man comes.
Matthew 26:38
Then Jesus says to them, My soul is deeply grieved, as far as of death. Remain ye here and watch with me.
Mark 13:34
like a man abroad, having left his house, and having given authority to his bondmen, and to each man his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.
Mark 14:38
Watch ye and pray that ye may not enter into temptation. Truly, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Luke 12:37
Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.
Luke 21:36
Watch ye therefore, making supplication at all times, so that ye may be considered worthy to escape all these things going to happen, and to stand before the Son of man.
Luke 22:46
And said to them, Why sleep ye? Having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Ephesians 6:18
praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,
Colossians 4:2
Continue in prayer, being vigilant in it with thankfulness.
2 Timothy 4:5
But be thou sober in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, bring thy ministry to fullness.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.
Revelation 3:2
Become thou watchful, and strengthen the remaining things that thou were going to throw away, for I have not found thy works made complete before my God.
Revelation 16:15
(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, so that he may not walk naked, and they see his shame.)

General references

Leviticus 11:16
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind,
Proverbs 24:33
[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
Matthew 25:13
Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the son of man comes.
Mark 13:33
Watch ye! Be alert and pray, for ye know not when the time is,
Luke 12:40
Therefore, ye also become ready, because the Son of man comes at that hour ye do not suppose.