Luke 21:36

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Summary

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Pray

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Accounted

Luke 20:35

2 Thessalonians 1:5

General references

Bible References

Pray

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

a religious man, too, who revered God with all his household, who was always liberal in his many deeds of charity to the people, and who had the habit of praying to God.

Keep on praying in the Spirit, with every kind of prayer and entreaty, at every opportunity, be ever on the alert with perfect devotion and entreaty for all God's people,

You must persevere in prayer and by this means stay wide awake when you give thanks.

Never stop praying.

Accounted

but those who are considered worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.

This is a proof of God's righteous judgment, His aim being to let you show yourselves worthy of His kingdom, for which you are suffering; since,

General references

So you must keep on watching, for you do not know either the day or the hour.

Keep looking, keep alert, for you do not know when the time will be.

So you, too, must always be ready, for at an hour that you are not expecting, the Son of Man will come."

It will be so on the day when the Son of Man appears