Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

I earnestly charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and dead, and [by] his appearing and his kingdom,

But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and watch in prayers;

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;

Strengthen

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

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, to sift like wheat;

and having spent some time there he went away, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, confirming all the disciples.

Thy works

When, therefore, you give in charity, sound not a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. I tell you truly, they have their reward.

And they do all their works to be seen by men. For they make broad their prayer fillets, and enlarge the fringes,

General references

Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their own lamps.

Observe, watch, for you know not when the time is.

For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged;