Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and guards his garments, lest he should walk naked and they should see his shame."

See how they are all blinded; they have not known; [they are] dumb dogs [that] will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

And on your walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.

For there is none like You, when He shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.

[As] I live, says the Lord God, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out My sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not My sheep,

thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hands, and will turn them back that they shall not feed My sheep, and the shepherds shall no longer feed them; and I will deliver My sheep out of their mouth, and they shall no longer be meat for them.

For behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall dislocate the joints of their necks.

Watch therefore, for you do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.

Therefore you also be ready, for in that hour you think not, the Son of Man comes.

Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My master is delaying to come,'

the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and in an hour which he does not know,

"Watch therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Take heed, stay awake and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming--at evening, or at midnight, or at dawn, or early in the morning--

And the things I say to you, I say to all: watch!"

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Also from among you yourselves will arise men speaking things having been distorted, [in order] to draw away the disciples after them.

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead in accordance with His appearing and His kingdom:

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.

Be sober, be watchful; your adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour.

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

And command Joshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him; for he shall go before the face of this people, and he shall give them the inheritance of all the land which you have seen.

and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

[ 16:6] And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

Be strong, you relaxed hands and feeble knees.

And the Lord said, "Simon, Simon! Behold, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."

After having spent some time there, he went out, going through in order the Galatian region and the Phrygian [region], strengthening all the disciples.

And it came to pass in the time of Solomon's old age, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.

And he walked in the sins of his father which he wrought in his presence, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as [was] the heart of his father [David].

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

And I will declare your righteousness, and your sins, which shall not profit you.

Tekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.

Whenever therefore you do charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by men. Assuredly I say to you, they receive their reward in full.

so that your charitable giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will Himself reward you openly.

But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and they enlarge the borders of their garments.

Thus also you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise [men], and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and [some] of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will persecute from city to city,

Assuredly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.