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The end of all things is near;[a] therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers.(A)

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  1. 4.7 Or is at hand

You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.[a](A) Brothers and sisters, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors!(B)

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  1. 5.8 Or is at hand

A Call to Holy Living

13 Therefore prepare your minds for action;[a] discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.(A)

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  1. 1.13 Gk gird up the loins of your mind

As for you, be sober in everything, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.(A)

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Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.(A)

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25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.(A)

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Exhortation to Watch

34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,(A)

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Further Instructions

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.(A)

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12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,(A)

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So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(A) for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.(B) But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.(C)

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37 He came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep awake one hour? 38 Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial;[a] the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”(A)

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  1. 14.38 Or into testing

    An end has come; the end has come.
It has awakened against you; see, it comes!

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Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.(A)

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12 Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; persevere in prayer.(A)

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46 and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”[a](A)

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  1. 22.46 Or into testing

18 Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.(A)

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24 Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power.(A)

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An Urgent Appeal

11 Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is already the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers;(A) 12 the night is far gone; the day is near. Let us then throw off[a] the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;(B)

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  1. 13.12 Other ancient authorities read lay aside

15 (“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed,[a] not going about naked and exposed to shame.”)(A)

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  1. 16.15 Gk and keeps his robes

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you,[a] not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.(A) 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.[b](B)

11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness,

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  1. 3.9 Other ancient authorities read on your account
  2. 3.10 Other ancient authorities read will not be found or will be burned up

36 Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”(A)

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33 Beware, keep alert,[a] for you do not know when the time will come.(A) 34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.(B) 35 Therefore, keep awake, for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or at dawn,(C) 36 or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. 37 And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”

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  1. 13.33 Other ancient authorities add and pray

42 Keep awake, therefore, for you do not know on what day[a] your Lord is coming.(A)

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  1. 24.42 Other ancient authorities read at what hour

13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.(A) 14 And this good news[a] of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world, as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.(B)

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  1. 24.14 Or gospel

Warning against Antichrists

18 Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know that it is the last hour.(A) 19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained[a] with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.(B)

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  1. 2.19 Or abided