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

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

¹³ Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

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.

³⁷ And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.

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

⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

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

¹⁵ (See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

⁷ But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

⁵ But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

³¹ So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

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.

⁵⁰ The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and in an hour of which he has no knowledge,