³⁶ Therefore be watchful all the time, asking that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

⁸ Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

²⁸ Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

¹³ Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

¹ He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

¹³ Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

² a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

¹³ Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

⁷ But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

³⁷ What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."

³³ Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

⁴² Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call on God at all times?

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

² "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;

³⁷ Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

³⁸ They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

³⁹ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

⁴⁰ Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

¹⁸ with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

¹⁹ on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Gospel,

² Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

⁵ But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

³⁵ But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

⁵ This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

⁶ Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,