⁴⁰ So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

¹² Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

¹³ But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

¹⁴ For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

¹¹ See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

³⁵ For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

³³ Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

³⁴ It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

³⁵ So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

³⁶ For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

¹³ Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.

⁴⁴ Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

⁷ Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready.