Luke 12:40

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

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.”

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

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

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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

“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.”

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

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

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

Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

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

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

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.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

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

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

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.

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

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

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

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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

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

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”