14 Bible Verses about Man Keeping Watch
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Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord cometh. But know this, that if the master of the house knew in what watch the thief would come, he would watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man cometh.
It is a night to be much observed to the LORD, for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed by all the children of Israel in their generations.
I will stand upon my watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
But know this, that if the master of the house knew in what watch the thief would come, he would watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken up.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
But their laying in wait, was known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
He smote the Philistines, even to Gaza, and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.