15 Bible Verses about Attitudes While Waiting For Second Coming

And ye like men expecting their Lord, when he shall loose from the nuptials; that having come and knocked, they might quickly open to him.

And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession; For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which the blessed and only sovereign shall show in his own times, the King of those reigning, and Lord of those ruling;

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness. Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses. I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession;read more.
For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which the blessed and only sovereign shall show in his own times, the King of those reigning, and Lord of those ruling; Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen.

Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning.

Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain.

And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked.

Let us rejoice, and be transported with joy, and let us give glory to him: for the marriage of the Lamb came, and his wife prepared herself.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice; Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;read more.
(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser. And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser. Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain; Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness. And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless. Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience. The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good; That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,read more.
Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed. The younger men likewise beseech to be of sound mind. Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility, The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you. Servants to be subordinate to their own masters, to be pleasing in all things; not contradicting; Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things. For the grace of God who saves, was manifested to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;

And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.