Bible Verses about “alert”
The Bible contains 44 verses about alert across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
“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:”
“and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,”
“that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;”
“and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.”
“If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.”
“Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.”
“Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.”
“He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."”
“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! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!”
“but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.”
“Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."”
“Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."”
“Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.”
“Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;”
“"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.”
“lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.”
“What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."”
“That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,”
“Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"”
“then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.”
“For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.”
“He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"”
“He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."”
“"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.”
“The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?”
“Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.”
“Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.”
“But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,”
“so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.”
“Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.”
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.”
“They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.”
“But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.”
“Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"”
“For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.”
“You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,”
“But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.”
“For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,”
“Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."”
“For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.”
“But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.”