Thematic Bible: Watchfulness


Thematic Bible



How happy the man that doth hearken to me, - keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;


How happy the man that doth hearken to me, - keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;








I said, to myself, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue, - I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless is before me.

Wherefore, be on the watch, remembering that, for three years, night and day, I gave myself no rest, with tears, admonishing each one.

Only take thou heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently, so that thou forget not the things which thine own eyes have seen, and so that they go not out of thy heart, all the days of thy life, - but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons and unto thy son's sons: -



Become thou watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, that were about to die; for I have not found thy works fulfilled before my God.


And, the foolish, unto the prudent, said - Give us of your oil, because, our torches, are going out.

But, if that wicked servant should say in his heart - My master, delayeth, And begin to be striking his fellow-servants, and eating and drinking with the drunken, The master of that servant, will have come, on a day when he is not expecting, and in an hour when he is not observing, - read more.
And will cut him asunder; and, his part, with the hypocrites, will appoint: There, shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth!

And, he, answering, said - Verily, I say unto you, I know you not.

Now, the bridegroom, delaying, they all became drowsy, and were sleeping.



Be watching, therefore, for ye know not, on what manner of day, your Lord is coming.

Be watching, therefore, for ye know not, when, the master of the house, is coming, - whether at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at early morn; - Lest, coming suddenly, he find you, sleeping.


As a man from home - having left his house, and given his servants the authority, to each one, his work, - and, unto the porter, hath given command, that he should watch: -

Upon thy walls O Jerusalem, have I appointed watchmen, All the day and all the night through, let them not hold their peace, - O ye that put Yahweh in mind, Do not take rest to yourselves,

Son of man, A watchman, have I appointed thee to the house of Israel, - and thou shalt hear, at my mouth a message, and shalt warn them from me.








And he cometh unto his disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and said unto Peter - Thus, powerless are ye, one hour, to watch with me?

Then, saith he unto them: Encompassed with grief, is my soul, unto death: Abide ye here, and be watching with me.



Happy those servants, whom the lord, when he cometh, shall find watching! Verily, I say unto you - he will gird himself, and make them recline, and, coming near, will minister unto them.





Become thou watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, that were about to die; for I have not found thy works fulfilled before my God.

But, what, unto you, I say, unto all, I say: - Be watching.






Wherefore, be on the watch, remembering that, for three years, night and day, I gave myself no rest, with tears, admonishing each one.


For, all ye, are, sons of light, and sons of day, - we are not of night, nor of darkness: Hence, then, let us not be sleeping, as the rest, but let us watch and be sober: -






For, they that sleep, by night, do sleep, and, they that drink, by night, do drink: -




Who then is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master hath appointed over his household, to give them food in season? Happy! that servant, whom his master, when he cometh, shall find so doing!








How happy the man that doth hearken to me, - keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;






Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning, And, ye yourselves, like unto men awaiting their own lord, once he may break up out of the marriage-feast, - that, when he cometh and knocketh, straightway, they may open unto him.


Upon my watch-tower, will I stand, and will station myself upon the bulwark, - so will I keep outlook, to see - what he will speak with me, and what I shall reply, when I am reproved.


His watchmen, are blind None of them, know, All of them, are dumb dogs, they cannot bark, - Dreaming, sleeping, loving to slumber.


I have watched and am become, Like a bird sitting alone upon a housetop.






Happy those servants, whom the lord, when he cometh, shall find watching! Verily, I say unto you - he will gird himself, and make them recline, and, coming near, will minister unto them.