Mark 14:38

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Mark 14:36–40 · Berean Standard Bible

36 “Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”

37 Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?

38 Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

39 Again He went away and prayed, saying the same thing.

40 And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.

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Mark 14:34

Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch.”

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Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

Matthew 25:13

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Matthew 26:41

“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

Luke 21:36

So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 22:40

When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”

Luke 22:46

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”

1 Corinthians 16:13

Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Revelation 3:2

Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Romans 7:18

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

Romans 7:20

And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:21

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

Romans 7:24

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Philippians 2:12

Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.