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Bible Verses About watch

This collection includes 50 passages about watch. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

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Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

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And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

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But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

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Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

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And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

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Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

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For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

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And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.

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The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

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Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

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Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

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But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

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Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

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And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

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So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

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Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

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Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

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Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,

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Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

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But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

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Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

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So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

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Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

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Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

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And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?

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Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:

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And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?

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Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

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He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

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Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

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Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

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And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

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And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

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Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

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My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

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