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⁸Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.

¹⁸Through every kind of prayer and supplication, pray at all times in spirit, and so be vigilant with every kind of earnest supplication, for all the saints,

¹³For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

²For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much like a thief in the night. ³For when they will say, “Peace and security!” then destruction will suddenly overwhelm them, like the labor pains of a woman with child, and they will not escape. ⁴But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that you would be overtaken by that day as by a thief. ⁵For all of you are sons of light and sons of daytime; we are not of nighttime, nor of darkness. ⁶Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober. ⁷For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are inebriated, are inebriated in the night.

⁴⁴For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return.

³⁶And so, be vigilant, praying at all times, so that you may be held worthy to escape from all these things, which are in the future, and to stand before the Son of man.”

³⁸Watch and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

⁴²Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.

³³Take heed, be vigilant, and pray. For you do not know when the time may be. ³⁴It is like a man who, setting out on a sojourn, left behind his house, and gave his servants authority over every work, and instructed the doorkeeper to stand watch. ³⁵Therefore, be vigilant, for you do not know when the lord of the house may arrive: in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at first light, or in the morning. ³⁶Otherwise, when he will have arrived unexpectedly, he may find you sleeping. ³⁷But what I say to you, I say to all: Be vigilant.”

⁴¹Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

¹³Be vigilant. Stand with faith. Act manfully and be strengthened.

⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

³⁵Let your waists be girded, and let lamps be burning in your hands. ³⁶And let you yourselves be like men awaiting their lord, when he will return from the wedding; so that, when he arrives and knocks, they may open to him promptly. ³⁷Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he returns, will find being vigilant. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, while he, continuing on, will minister to them. ³⁸And if he will return in the second watch, or if in the third watch, and if he will find them to be so: then blessed are those servants. ³⁹But know this: that if the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly stand watch, and he would not permit his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰You also must be prepared. For the Son of man will return at an hour that you will not realize.”

³³Take heed, be vigilant, and pray. For you do not know when the time may be.

²⁵And behold, a certain expert in the law rose up, testing him and saying, “Teacher, what must I do to possess eternal life?” ²⁶But he said to him: “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” ²⁷In response, he said: “You shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from all your strength, and from all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁸And he said to him: “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

²²to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, ²³and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.