Bible Verses about “being spiritually awake”
The Bible contains 43 verses about being spiritually awake across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”
“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”
“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”
“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.”
“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”
“Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.”
“Pray without ceasing.”
“Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."”
“Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.”
“Rejoice always.”
“But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.”
“Abstain from every form of evil.”
“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."”
“Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.”
“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--”
“We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.”
“"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.”
“But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,”
“and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.”
“See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.”
“Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;”
“May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“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.”
“But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.”
“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.”
“so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.”
“"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."”
“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,”
“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.”
“For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.”
“Don't despise prophesies.”
“But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.”
“But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.”
“Don't quench the Spirit.”
“He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.”
“Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.”
“who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”
“Brothers, pray for us.”
“I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.”
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.”