14 Bible Verses about Man Keeping Watch
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Wake, therefore, because ye know not what hour your master will come. Of this be sure, that if the good man of the house knew what hour the thief would come: he would surely watch, and not suffer his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready, for in the hour ye think least on, in the same ye think he would not: will the son of man come.
Look that ye watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor yet the hour, when the son of man shall come.
This is a night to be observed to the LORD, because he brought them out of the land of Egypt. This is a night of the LORD, to be kept of all the children of Israel and of their generations after them.
I stood upon my watch, and set me upon my bulwark, to look and see what he would say unto me, and what answer I should give him that reproveth me.
Of this be sure, that if the good man of the house knew what hour the thief would come: he would surely watch, and not suffer his house to be broken up.
And there were in the same region shepherds abiding in the field, and watching their flock by night.
But their layings wait was known of Saul. And they watched at the gates day and night to kill him.
Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit yourselves to them, for they watch for your souls, even as they that must give accounts for them: that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. For that is an unprofitable thing for you.
The path of the righteous escheweth evil; and whoso looketh well to his ways, keepeth his own soul.
{Pe} Wherefore yet our eyes fail us, while we look for vain help: seeing we be ever waiting upon a people that can do us no good.
Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night over against them.
When the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake and those things which happened, they feared greatly, saying, "Of a surety this was the son of God."
He beat the Philistines even unto Gaza and the coasts thereof, both in castles of garrisons and strong cities too.
