11 Bible Verses about Vigilance
Most Relevant Verses
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist, steadfast in the faith, remembering that ye do but fulfill the same afflictions which are appointed to your brethren that are in the world. The God of all grace - which called you unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus - shall his own self, after ye have suffered a little affliction, make you perfect: shall settle, strengthen, and establish you.
Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons.
{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."
Watch and pray, that ye fall not into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Therefore awake and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one of you, both night and day with tears.
Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, and be strong.
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Be awake, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.
From Thematic Bible
Vigilance » Instance of » King of jericho
Then Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two spies, secretly, saying, "Go and view the land and also Jericho." And they went, and came unto a harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, "Behold there came men in hither tonight, of the children of Israel, to spy out the country." And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, "Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the land."