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Wake up and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.

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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

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

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In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you:(A) proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage with the utmost patience in teaching.(B) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires(C) and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

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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

28 Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God[a] that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.[b](A) 29 I know that after I have gone, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.(B) 30 Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them. 31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.(C)

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  1. 20.28 Other ancient authorities read of the Lord
  2. 20.28 Or with his own blood; Gk with the blood of his Own

Strengthen the weak hands
    and make firm the feeble knees.(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

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

31 “Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded[a] to sift all of you like wheat,(A) 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail, and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”(B)

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  1. 22.31 Or has obtained permission

23 After spending some time there he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia[a] and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.(A)

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  1. 18.23 Gk the Galatian region

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a true heart.(A)

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28 But charge Joshua and encourage and strengthen him, because it is he who shall cross over at the head of this people and who shall secure their possession of the land that you will see.’(A)

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13 Keep awake, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.[a](A)

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  1. 25.13 Other ancient authorities add in which the Son of Man is coming

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

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42 Keep awake, therefore, for you do not know on what day[a] your Lord is coming.(A) 43 But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.(B) 44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.(C)

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Slave

45 “Who, then, is the faithful and wise slave whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves[b] their allowance of food at the proper time?(D) 46 Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives.(E) 47 Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions.(F) 48 But if that wicked slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards, 50 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know. 51 He will cut him in pieces[c] and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(G)

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  1. 24.42 Other ancient authorities read at what hour
  2. 24.45 Gk to give them
  3. 24.51 Or cut him off

16 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.(A)

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“So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.(A) But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[a](B)

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  1. 6.4 Other ancient authorities add openly

27 tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;(A)

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As I live, says the Lord God, because my sheep have become a prey and my sheep have become food for all the wild animals, 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,(A) therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 Thus says the Lord God: I am against the shepherds, and I will hold them accountable for my sheep and put a stop to their feeding the sheep; no longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, so that they may not be food for them.(B)

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Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
    I have posted sentinels;
all day and all night
    they shall never be silent.
You who remind the Lord,
    take no rest,(A)
and give him no rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes it renowned throughout the earth.(B)

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12 I will announce your verdict,
    and the objects you made will not help you.

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10 Israel’s[a] sentinels are blind;
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs
    that cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.(A)

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  1. 56.10 Heb His

Your words have supported those who were stumbling,
    and you have made firm the feeble knees.(A)
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
    it touches you, and you are dismayed.(B)

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He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.(A)

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For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.(A)

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