Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,

But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.

Be sober, be watchful: for your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.

Strengthen

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you apostles for himself, that he may sift you as wheat.

And having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

Thy works

When, therefore, you do a charitable deed, do not cause a trumpet to be sounded before you, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Verily, I say to you, They have their reward.

And they do all their works for the purpose of being seen by men. They make their amulets broad, and enlarge the fringes of their mantles.

General references

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

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

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged;