Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Bible References

Your hearts

Luke 12:45
But if that servant say in his heart, My master will be a long while ere he comes; and shall begin to beat the men and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink, and to get drunk;
Romans 13:11
And thus do, knowing the time; for the hour is come that we should awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries;

Surfeiting

1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written unto you not to associate with him, if any man, professing to be a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.
1 Corinthians 6:10
nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:20
idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies,

Cares

Luke 8:14
And that which fell among thorns, are they having heard, and going away, are choked by the cares, and wealth, and pleasures of life, and bring forth no perfect fruit.
Luke 10:41
But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disturbing thyself about many things.
Matthew 13:22
But the sown among the thorns, is he who heareth the word, and the anxiety about this world and the deceitfulness of riches, choketh the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Mark 4:19
but the anxious cares of this world, and the seducing nature of wealth, and inordinate desires after other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Philippians 4:6
Be not anxious about any thing, but in every case by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known unto God.

That day

Luke 12:46
the master of that servant will come in a day when he doth not expect him, and at an hour which he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and give him his portion with the unfaithful.
Matthew 24:39
and they knew it not till the deluge came, and swept them all away; such also shall the coming of the Son of man be.
Mark 13:35
Watch ye therefore; for ye know not at what time the master of the house cometh, at evening, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or in the morning:
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for yourselves know precisely that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief by night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a rushing noise, and the first principles of matter in flames dissolve, and the earth and all the works upon it be burnt up.
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and observe, and repent. If then thou art not found watching, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt in no wise know at what hour I will come upon thee.

General references

Mark 4:7
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it, and it produced no fruit.
Mark 13:33
Take ye heed, watch, and pray; for ye know not when the time is.
Luke 12:40
Therefore be ye also ready, for at an hour that ye think not of, the Son of man cometh.
Luke 17:30
Just so will it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.