Thematic Bible: Watchfulness


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Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children; Verse ConceptsLearning From The PastBaby dedicationForgettingForgetting GodFathers, Responsibilities OfBeing A KidGenerationsChildren, needs ofDiligence, Objects Ofdiscipline, in the familyGuardsPast, TheWatchfulness, Of BelieversCautiondiligenceParents Duty To ChildrenChildrearingCaring For ChildrenVigilanceSchoolsTeaching ChildrenGuarding Yourself



Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualLukewarmnessHuman ImperfectionVigilanceStrength Of PeopleNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearWake Up!Be Strong!Incomplete Worksrevelationdeeds

The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' Verse ConceptsOil For LampsExtinguishingFoolish People

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it, read more.
and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.' Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleChrist Telling The TruthTelling The Truth

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceWaiting Till Marriage

Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Verse ConceptsHourKingdom Of God, Entry IntoNightMan Keeping WatchIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnThe Time UnknownWaiting Till Marriage


Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersHuman Authority, Nature OfMan Appointing

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest, Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightSleeplessnessWatchmanAnticipation

Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of LeadersWatchmanvocation





He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour? Verse ConceptsHourPainPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOverconfidenceOne HourChrist With His DisciplesStress And Hard Times



Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. Verse ConceptsTablesCharacter Of SaintsClothing OneselfReclining To EatChrist Telling The TruthWaiting Till Marriageluck



Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualLukewarmnessHuman ImperfectionVigilanceStrength Of PeopleNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearWake Up!Be Strong!Incomplete Worksrevelationdeeds

What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."

Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Verse ConceptsHourKingdom Of God, Entry IntoNightMan Keeping WatchIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnThe Time UnknownWaiting Till Marriage




You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness, so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.



For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. Verse ConceptsNightSleep, PhysicalSecret SinsSpiritual NightDo Not Get DrunkDrunkennessPositive Thinkingdrunkards


"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.







"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. Verse ConceptsMan Keeping WatchWaitingWatchmanAnswering Godanswersmyself

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. Verse ConceptsDumbnessDaydreamingOccupationsSleep, SpiritualSleep, PhysicalWatchmanSloth Examples OfSleep, Warnings AgainstBarking And HowlingDumbThose Who Were IgnorantPetsawakening

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop. Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessLonelinessBirds, Figurative UseHousetopsSparrowsIsolated PersonsRooftoplonliness



Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. Verse ConceptsTablesCharacter Of SaintsClothing OneselfReclining To EatChrist Telling The TruthWaiting Till Marriageluck