Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving. | Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. |
Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. | Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. |
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Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour. | Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. |
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. | Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. |
So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. | Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. |
Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. | Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. |
The end of all things is near; therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers. | But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. |
Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed. | Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. |