Bible verses about Vigilance
Verses that call believers to stay awake and watchful.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
1 Thessalonians 5:6“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
Matthew 26:41Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
Mark 13:33Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
Matthew 24:42But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
Matthew 24:43So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Luke 21:36Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
Ephesians 6:18Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
Colossians 4:2Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
Revelation 3:2Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
Revelation 3:3“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
Revelation 16:15But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.
1 Thessalonians 5:4But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 4:5So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
1 Corinthians 10:12Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
Luke 12:35Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
Luke 12:37