Thematic Bible: Watchfulness


Thematic Bible



Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.


Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.













Become thou watchful, and strengthen the remaining things that thou were going to throw away, for I have not found thy works made complete before my God.


And the foolish said to the wise, Give us from your olive oil, because our lamps are going out.

But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming, and should begin to beat the fellow bondmen, and to eat and drink with the drunken, the lord of that bondman will come in a day that he does not expect, and in an hour that he is not aware, read more.
and he will cut him in two, and place his share with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

But having answered, he said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.


Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the son of man comes.


Watch therefore, for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at cock crowing, or in the morning, lest having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping.


like a man abroad, having left his house, and having given authority to his bondmen, and to each man his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest,

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.








And he comes to the disciples, and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, So ye could not watch with me one hour.




Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.





Become thou watchful, and strengthen the remaining things that thou were going to throw away, for I have not found thy works made complete before my God.

And what I say to you I say to all, watch!


Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the son of man comes.






Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.






For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.




Who then is the faithful and wise bondman, whom his lord appointed over his service, to give them the provision on time? Blessed is that bondman, whom his lord when he comes will find so doing.








Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.






Let your loins be girded about, and the lights burning, and be ye like men waiting for their lord, when he may return from the wedding festivities, so that when he comes and knocks, they may straightaway open to him.


I will stand upon my watch, and set myself upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.


His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.


I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.






Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.