66 Bible Verses about Watchfulness, Of Believers

Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:

Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye foolish, when will ye understand?

Hear ye instructions, and be wise, and ye shall not reject it Happy the man hearing to me, to watch at my doors day, day; to watch the door posts of my entrances.

And Jesus having answered, said to them, See lest any lead you astray. For many shall come upon my name, saying, I am Christ; and deceive many.

And he enjoined them, saying, See ye, look away from the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.

And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.

Watch ye, stand in the faith, be manly, be strengthened..

Watch and pray, lest ye come into temptation: truly the spirit of a ready will, and the flesh weak.

Watch ye and pray, that ye should not come into temptation. Truly the spirit well inclined, and the flesh weak.

And watch ye greatly to your souls, for ye saw not any appearance in the day Jehovoh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

So that Jehovah shall raise up his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy sons shall watch their way to go before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, saying, There shall not be cut off to thee a man from the throne of Israel.

And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.

And he said to the disciples, It is impossible there come not causes of offence: and woe, through whom they come! It is profitable to him if the millstone of an ass were placed about his neck, and he cast into the sea, rather than he should offend one of these little ones. Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.

Therefore let him seeming to stand see that he fall not.

Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.

Only watch greatly to do the command and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God and to go in all his ways, and to watch his commands, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

And watch the watches of Jehovah thy God, to go in his ways, to watch his laws, his commands and his judgments, and his testimonies, as written in the law of Moses, so that thou shalt consider all that thou shalt do and all Where thou shalt turn there:

For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away.

See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:

And we have the prophetic word more firm; which holding to, ye do well, as to a light shining in a dusty place, even till the day shine through, and the morning star spring up in your hearts:

And we will pray to our God, and we shall set up a watch against them day and night, from before them.

And it will be said to them, The gates of Jerusalem shall not be opened till the sun being hot; and till they standing by shall shut the doors and fasten: and setting up watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a man in his watch, and a man before his house.

To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting of David. I said, I will watch my way from sinning with my tongue: I will watch for my mouth with a muzzle while yet the unjust one is before me.

Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my mouth; guard over the door of my lips.

He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.

He watching his mouth and his tongue watches his soul from straits.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames (And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell. For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:read more.
And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison.

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

Mine eyes are always to Jehovah, for he will bring forth my feet from the net

His strength for thee will I watch: for God my height

Song of ascensions. To thee dwelling in the heavens I lifted up mine eyes. Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their lords, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to Jehovah our God, even till he compassionate us.

I waited for Jehovah, my soul waited, and I hoped for his word My soul for Jehovah more than they watching for the morning: they watching for the morning.

Upon the high mountain come up for thee, O Zion: announcing the good news, lift up thy voice with strength, O Jerusalem; announcing the good news, lift up, thou shalt not be afraid; say to the cities, Behold your God!

I will look about for Jehovah, I will wait for God my deliverer; my God will hear me.

And, behold, a man was in Jerusalem, the name to him Simeon; and this man just and cautious, waiting the consolation of Israel : and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

In prayer persevere, watching in it in gratitude Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

See, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

Watch therefore, in all time praying, that ye be deemed worthy to escape all these about to be, and to stand before the Son of man.

By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:

And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.

Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined. Therefore be ye also prepared: for what hour ye think not, the Son of man comes.

Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom. And five of them were discerning, and five foolish. Those foolish having taken their lanterns, took no oil with them.read more.
And the discerning took oil in their vessels with their lanterns. And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept. And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting. Then all these virgins were aroused, and put their lanterns in order. And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched. And the discerning answered, saying, Lest it should not suffice us and you: but go ye rather to those selling, and buy for yourselves. And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked. And afterwards came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. And he having answered said, Truly I say to you, I know you not. Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes.

And concerning that day and hour none knows, nor the messengers in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. See, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. As a man travelling, having left his house, and having given power to his servants, and to each his work, and he commanded the guard of the door that he should watch.read more.
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning. Lest having come suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all, Watch ye.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye like men expecting their Lord, when he shall loose from the nuptials; that having come and knocked, they might quickly open to him. Happy those servants, whom the Lord having come shall find watching; truly I say to you, he will gird himself, and make them recline, and having come he will serve them.read more.
And if he should come in the second watch, and should come in the third watch, and find so, happy are those servants. And know this, that if the master of the house knew what hour the thief is coming, he had watched, and not have suffered his house to be undermined. And be ye therefore ready: for in the time which ye think not the Son of man is coming.

Truly I say to you, That this generation should not pass away, even till all things should be. Heaven and earth shall pass away: and my words shall not pass away. And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.read more.
For as a snare shall it come upon all remaining upon the face of all, the earth. Watch therefore, in all time praying, that ye be deemed worthy to escape all these about to be, and to stand before the Son of man.

And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you. Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.read more.
For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night. And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:

See therefore how ye walk accurately, not as unwise, but as wise, Making purchase of time, for the days are evil.

In wisdom walk toward them without, purchasing the time. Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.

Then comes Jesus with them into the place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples, Sit here, till I, having gone, shall pray. And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved, and to be dejected. Then says he to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch ye with me.read more.
And having gone forward a little, he fell upon his face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: but not as I will, but as thou. And he comes to his disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, So were ye not able to watch with me one hour?

Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.

Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work,

The unjust watches for the just, and seeks to kill him,

And Saul will be wrong with David from that day and forward.

And Saul will send messengers to the house of David to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michel his wife will announce to David, saying, If thou save not thy soul this night, to-morrow thou diest

Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.

For I heard the slander of many, terror from round about Announce ye, and we will announce. Every man of my peace watching my halting: perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we will take our vengeance of him.

And from then he sought opportunity, that he might deliver him.

And they were observing him narrowly, if in the sabbaths he will heal him; that they might accuse him.

But this project was known to Saul. And they observed narrowly the gates day, and also night, that they might kill him.

Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and do thou, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I shall come upon thee.