Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving. | Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. |
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. | Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. |
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Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! | Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. |
With all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints. | Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints. |
So then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. | So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. |
Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes. | Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. |
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. | The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. |
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. | Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. |