11 Bible Verses about Vigilance
Most Relevant Verses
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;
“Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.
For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”
Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.
From Thematic Bible
Vigilance » Instance of » King of jericho
Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho " So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. It was told the king of Jericho, saying, "Behold, men from the sons of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land." And the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land."