Therefore be alert, since you don't know what day your Lord is coming.

This is why you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

"Therefore be alert, because you don't know either the day or the hour.

Stay awake and pray, so that you won't enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Watch! Be alert! For you don't know when the time is [coming].

Therefore be alert, since you don't know when the master of the house is coming-- whether in the evening or at midnight or at the crowing of the rooster or early in the morning.

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be alert!"

Then He came and found them sleeping. "Simon, are you sleeping?" He asked Peter. "Couldn't you stay awake one hour?

Stay awake and pray so that you won't enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

"Be ready for service and have your lamps lit.

Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed. I assure you: He will get ready, have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.

But know this: if the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man."

With every prayer and request, pray at all times in the Spirit, and stay alert in this, with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.

Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.

So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be sober.

But as for you, keep a clear head about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Now the end of all things is near; therefore, be clear-headed and disciplined for prayer.

Be sober! Be on the alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.

Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before My God.

Remember therefore what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. But if you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come against you.

"Look, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who is alert and remains clothed so that he may not go naked, and they see his shame."

Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it.

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you-- unless you believed to no purpose.

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord's work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Not that we have control of your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand by faith.

Christ has liberated us into freedom. Therefore stand firm and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Just one thing: live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith of the gospel,

So then, in this way, my dearly loved brothers, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith, and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. [This gospel] has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a minister of it.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, either by our message or by our letter.

Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Brothers, don't be childish in your thinking, but be infants in evil and adult in your thinking.

Show some courage and be men, Philistines! Otherwise, you'll serve the Hebrews just like they served you. Now be men and fight!"

Be strong! We must prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD's will be done."

Be strong! We must prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD's will be done."

This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

and your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace.

Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word.

Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have made a good confession before many witnesses.

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

And what more can I say? Time is too short for me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength after being weak, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

"Be strong and courageous, for you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance.

Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.

Haven't I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words in all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!"

"As for me, I am going the way of all of the earth. Be strong and brave,

Realize now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."

Wait for the LORD; be courageous and let your heart be strong. Wait for the LORD.

Say to the faint-hearted: "Be strong; do not fear! Here is your God; vengeance is coming. God's retribution is coming; He will save you."

He said, "Don't be afraid, you who are treasured [by God]. Peace to you; be very strong!" As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

With flattery he will corrupt those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will be strong and take action.

Even so, be strong, Zerubbabel"-- the LORD's declaration. "Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land"-- the LORD's declaration. "Work! For I am with you"-- the declaration of the LORD of Hosts.

The LORD of Hosts says this: "Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words that the prophets spoke when the foundations were laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.

As you have been a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Don't be afraid; let your hands be strong."

But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me.

So because of Christ, I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in catastrophes, in persecutions, and in pressures. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.

I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.

May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy

giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.

You, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.