14 Bible Verses about Man Keeping Watch

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him,

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; whoever guards his way preserves his life.

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

Then they sat down and kept watch over him there.

When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.