Being Spiritually Awake

Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. — read the full passage →

with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.

And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when wefirstbelieved. — read the full passage →

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? — read the full passage →

I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works. — read the full passage →

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, — read the full passage →

comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

and from Jesus Christ, who isthe faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare: — read the full passage →

But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, — read the full passage →

Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. — read the full passage →

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when wefirstbelieved.

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; — read the full passage →

who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: — read the full passage →

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as alsoit iswith you;

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; — read the full passage →

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ:

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.

And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

Arise; for the matter belongeth unto thee, and we are with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,

far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with beholding thy form.

and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally.

Now even the firstcovenanthad ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world. — read the full passage →

Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.

Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. — read the full passage →

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? — read the full passage →

he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: — read the full passage →

to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →