Mark 13:36

The Unknown Day And Hour

³⁵ So, be alert, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return, whether [some] evening, at midnight, at dawn, or at [mid-] morning. ³⁶ [Be alert], for he might come unexpectedly and find you asleep. ³⁷ And what I am telling you, I am telling everyone. Be alert "

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Mark 14:40

Then He came back again and found His disciples still asleep, because they had not been able to keep their eyes open at all.

Matthew 24:48-51

But if that slave, with evil intent, should think to himself, 'My master will not be back very soon,'

Matthew 25:5

Now when the [bride and] groom were late [in arriving], the bridesmaids all got drowsy and fell asleep.

Mark 14:37

And when He came back and found His disciples sleeping He said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not stay alert [in prayer] for one hour?

Luke 21:34

"But pay attention to yourselves so that your hearts do not become overburdened by carousing, and drunkenness, and the worries of life. [If you do], that 'day' [i.e., Jesus' second coming and judgment] will arrive suddenly, like a trap [i.e., which catches an animal by surprise].

Luke 22:45

And when He got up from praying He went to His disciples and found them asleep, exhausted from grief.

Romans 13:11-14

Now this [is another reason for observing the law of love]: You should know that it is about time to wake up out of your [spiritual] sleep, because [the day of our final] salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed [in Christ].

Ephesians 5:14

So, it says, "You who are asleep, wake up and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you [i.e., illuminate you]." [Note: The foregoing words may have been an early saying, used at someone's immersion, which included the ideas of "rising up" (See Col. 2:12) and "illumination" (See Heb. 6:4)].

1 Thessalonians 5:6-7

So then, we should not be [spiritually] asleep, like the rest [i.e., the unsaved world], but we should be alert and sober [i.e., in control of our senses].