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(page 1) Bible Verses About Watch
108 Scriptures on Watch

Jeremiah 9:4

Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

Job 21:32

He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

Job 40:24

Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?

Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

Joshua 10:18

And Joshua said, Let great stones be rolled against the mouth of the hole, and let men keep watch by it:

Joshua 23:11

So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken.

Judges 9:32

So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;

Lamentations 1:14

A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

Leviticus 8:35

And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.

Luke 11:21

When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:

Luke 20:20

And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.

Luke 21:36

But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

Mark 12:38

And in his teaching he said, Be on your watch against the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes and be respected in the market-places,

Mark 13:33

Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

Mark 13:34

It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

Mark 13:35

So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

Mark 13:37

And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.

Mark 14:34

And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.

Mark 14:37

And he came, and saw them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you sleeping? were you not able to keep watch one hour?

Mark 14:38

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

Mark 6:48

And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;

Mark 8:15

And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

Matthew 10:17

But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows;

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

Matthew 25:13

Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.

Matthew 26:38

Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.

Matthew 26:40

And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour?

Matthew 26:41

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

Matthew 7:15

Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

Micah 7:5

Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

Nehemiah 11:19

In addition the door-keepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers who kept watch at the doors, were a hundred and seventy-two.

Nehemiah 12:24

And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch.

Nehemiah 12:25

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.

Nehemiah 12:45

And they kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean, and so did the music-makers and the door-keepers, as it was ordered by David and Solomon his son.

Nehemiah 3:25

Palal, the son of Uzai, made good the wall opposite the angle and the tower which comes out from the higher part of the king's house, by the open space of the watch. After him was Pedaiah, the son of Parosh.

Nehemiah 4:22

And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.

Nehemiah 4:9

But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

Nehemiah 7:3

And I said to them, Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high; and while the watchmen are in their places, let the doors be shut and locked: and let the people of Jerusalem be put on watch, every one in his watch, opposite his house.

Philippians 3:2

Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:

Proverbs 13:3

He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Proverbs 20:27

The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.

Proverbs 21:23

He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

Proverbs 24:15

Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

Proverbs 2:8

He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

Proverbs 4:23

And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.


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