Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

When he sees chariots, teams of horses, ¹  riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert.”

“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 

Watch out! Stay alert! ¹  For you do not know when the time will come.

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

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

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

He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay alert.”

He died ¹  for us so that whether we are alert or asleep ²  we will come to life together with him.

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 –

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night ¹  and finds them alert, ²  blessed are those slaves! ³ 

But stay alert at all times, ¹  praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must ²  happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Therefore be alert, ¹  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ²  each one of you with tears.

With every prayer and petition, pray ¹  at all times in the Spirit, and to this end ²  be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

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

The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, ¹  so that I know how to help the weary. ²  He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do. ³ 

Their horses are faster than leopards and more alert ¹  than wolves in the desert. ²  Their horses ³  gallop, ⁴  their horses come a great distance; like a vulture ⁵  they swoop down quickly to devour their prey. ⁶ 

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief ¹  was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves ¹  in charge, assigning ²  to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.