255 verses contain “Watch” (in the KJV: 147, in the BSB: 184) — showing 201–255
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In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a thunderous voice, “Come!”
And these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in any thing.
Watch ye, and keep them till ye deliver them to the chief of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, into the chambers of the house of our God.
Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.
Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course:
Then every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.
For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence; so shall thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city, and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will camp upon them, to watch that none go out of the city.
Thus they went straight forth in the valley: and the first watch of the Assyrians met her,
And so soon as the morning shall appear, and the sun shall come forth upon the earth, take ye every one his weapons, and go forth every valiant man out of the city, and set ye a captain over them, as though ye would go down into the field toward the watch of the Assyrians; but go not down.
To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.
Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?
Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep.
Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating: he riseth early, and his wits are with him: but the pain of watching, and choler, and pangs of the belly, are with an unsatiable man.
So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work:
The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:
A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.
Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.
At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their order, and never faint in their watches.
Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us.
The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them.
Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her.
And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.
And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid themselves, and watched her.
Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth centinels round about the host.
But because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to accomplish this thing by policy.