Being Spiritually Awake

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

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

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

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

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

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

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

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:

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— — read the full passage →

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

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? — read the full passage →

I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works. — read the full passage →

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News 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’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

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

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

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

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. — read the full passage →

But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, — read the full passage →

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

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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

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

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

among whom we also all once lived in the lust 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 languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.”

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. — read the full passage →

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to 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 those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t 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 the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

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

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

Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News 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, didn’t consider 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 age, but also in that which is to come.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?” — read the full passage →

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur 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 blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →