Revelation 3:2
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2 Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works (A)complete in the sight of my God.
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Revelation 16:15
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15 (“Behold, (A)I am coming like a thief! (B)Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, (C)that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)
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1 Peter 4:7
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7 (A)The end of all things is at hand; therefore (B)be self-controlled and sober-minded (C)for the sake of your prayers.
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2 Timothy 4:1-4
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Preach the Word
4 (A)I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, (B)who is to judge the living and the dead, and by (C)his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; (D)reprove, rebuke, and (E)exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 (F)For the time is coming when people will not endure (G)sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and (H)will turn away from listening to the truth and (I)wander off into myths.
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- 2 Timothy 4:3 Or healthy
Acts 20:28-31
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28 (A)Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all (B)the flock, in which (C)the Holy Spirit has made you (D)overseers, (E)to care for (F)the church of God,[a] which he (G)obtained (H)with his own blood.[b] 29 I (I)know that after my departure (J)fierce wolves will come in among you, (K)not sparing the flock; 30 and (L)from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore (M)be alert, remembering that (N)for three years I did not cease night or day (O)to admonish every one (P)with tears.
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- Acts 20:28 Some manuscripts of the Lord
- Acts 20:28 Or with the blood of his Own
Mark 13:33-37
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33 (A)Be on guard, (B)keep awake.[a] For you do not know when the time will come. 34 (C)It is like a man (D)going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants[b] in charge, (E)each with his work, and commands (F)the doorkeeper to stay awake. 35 (G)Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, (H)in the evening, or (I)at midnight, or (J)when the rooster crows,[c] or (K)in the morning— 36 lest (L)he come suddenly and (M)find you asleep. 37 And what I say to you I say to all: (N)Stay awake.”
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- Mark 13:33 Some manuscripts add and pray
- Mark 13:34 Or bondservants
- Mark 13:35 That is, the third watch of the night, between midnight and 3 a.m.
Luke 22:31-32
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Jesus Foretells Peter's Denial
31 “Simon, Simon, behold, (A)Satan demanded to have you,[a] (B)that he might sift you like wheat, 32 but (C)I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, (D)strengthen your brothers.”
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- Luke 22:31 The Greek word for you (twice in this verse) is plural; in verse 32, all four instances are singular
Isaiah 35:3
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3 (A)Strengthen the weak hands,
and make firm the feeble knees.
Acts 18:23
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23 After spending some time there, he departed and (A)went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, (B)strengthening all the disciples.
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2 Chronicles 25:2
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2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, (A)yet not with a whole heart.
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Deuteronomy 3:28
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28 But (A)charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’
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Matthew 25:13
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13 (A)Watch therefore, for you (B)know neither the day nor the hour.
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Matthew 24:42-51
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42 Therefore, (A)stay awake, for you do not know on what day (B)your Lord is coming. 43 (C)But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night (D)the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be (E)ready, for (F)the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45 “Who then is (G)the faithful and (H)wise servant,[a] whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 (I)Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 47 Truly, I say to you, (J)he will set him over all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master (K)is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants[b] and eats and drinks with (L)drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come (M)on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place (N)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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- Matthew 24:45 Or bondservant; also verses 46, 48, 50
- Matthew 24:49 Or bondservants
Revelation 2:4
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4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned (A)the love you had at first.
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Daniel 5:27
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27 Tekel, (A)you have been weighed[a] in the balances and found wanting;
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- Daniel 5:27 Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed
Isaiah 57:12
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12 I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
but they will not profit you.
1 Kings 11:4
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4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and (A)his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, (B)as was the heart of David his father.
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Matthew 23:5
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5 (A)They do all their deeds (B)to be seen by others. For they make (C)their phylacteries broad and (D)their fringes long,
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Matthew 6:2-4
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2 (A)“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may (B)be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have (C)received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. (D)And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
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Ezekiel 34:16
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16 (A)I will seek the lost, (B)and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and (C)the fat and the strong I will destroy.[a] I will feed them in justice.
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- Ezekiel 34:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate I will watch over
Ezekiel 34:8-10
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8 (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because (B)my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep, 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 Thus says the Lord God, (C)Behold, I am against the shepherds, and (D)I will require my sheep at their hand and (E)put a stop to their feeding the sheep. (F)No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. (G)I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
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Isaiah 62:6-7
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6 On your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have set (A)watchmen;
all the day and all the night
they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
take no rest,
7 and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it (B)a praise in the earth.
Isaiah 56:10
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10 (A)His watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent (B)dogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
Job 16:5
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5 I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
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