Mark 13:33

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Mark 13:33

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

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But as for yourselves, be on your guard: I have forewarned you of everything.

Then He came and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Had you not strength to keep awake a single hour?

Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.

"Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!

Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come."

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

Carry out these injunctions because you know the critical period at which we are living, and that it is now high time, to rouse yourselves from sleep; for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first became believers.

Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day. We belong neither to the night nor to darkness.

Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled;

But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.

Rouse yourself and keep awake, and strengthen those things which remain but have well-nigh perished; for I have found no doings of yours free from imperfection in the sight of My God.

("I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the man who keeps awake and guards his raiment for fear he walk about ill-clad, and his uncomeliness become manifest.")