Being Spiritually Awake

wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

`Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

`lo, I do come as a thief; happy <FI>is<Fi> he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;

become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard <FI>you<Fi> from the evil;

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you, — read the full passage →

through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--

and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe; — read the full passage →

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me! — read the full passage →

To the Overseer, `On the Death of Labben.' --A Psalm of David. I confess, O Jehovah, with all my heart, I recount all Thy wonders, — 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, — read the full passage →

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

Ye were running well; who did hinder you--not to obey the truth?

and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — read the full passage →

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

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, — 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 your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

then--the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power--

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe;

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem--the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

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

who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven--messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

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

in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; — read the full passage →

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

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

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

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

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not 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, that ye may be established; — read the full passage →

`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence--for a trap.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--

for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

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

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy--`According to the proportion of faith!'

for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one--Jesus Christ.

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple, — read the full passage →

rise, for on thee <FI>is<Fi> the matter, and we <FI>are<Fi> with thee; be strong, and do.'

that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

This one is he who did come through water and blood--Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

and did send Timotheus--our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ--to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God,

far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

I--in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, <FI>with<Fi> Thy form!

and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary, — read the full passage →

but that which is spiritual <FI>is<Fi> not first, but that which <FI>was<Fi> natural, afterwards that which <FI>is<Fi> spiritual.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose; — read the full passage →

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain--to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this--the Son of Man?' — read the full passage →

he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that hath been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers, and before the Lamb, — read the full passage →

to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →