A wise person is cautious ¹  and turns from evil, but a fool throws off restraint ²  and is overconfident. ³ 

The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, ¹  but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!”

Thorns and snares ¹  are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

Blessed is the one who is always cautious, ¹  but whoever hardens his heart ²  will fall into evil.

“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day ¹  your Lord will come.

Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour. ¹ 

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

Then Samuel said, “Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites.” So Agag came to him trembling, ¹  thinking to himself, ²  “Surely death is bitter!” ³ 

But his master answered, ¹  ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return – whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn –

Now ¹  there was a man in Jerusalem ²  named Simeon who was righteous ³  and devout, looking for the restoration ⁴  of Israel, and the Holy Spirit ⁵  was upon him.

He ¹  did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

and live ¹  in love, just as Christ also loved us ²  and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering ³  to God.

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, ¹  is on the prowl looking for someone ²  to devour.

Until ¹  certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this ²  and separated himself ³  because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision. ⁴