2 Corinthians 5:3

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”

When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.

Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.

Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.

then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”