Keep watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Colossians 4:2 - The Text-Critical English New Testament Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Be earnest and unwearied and steadfast in your prayer [life], being [both] alert and intent in [your praying] with thanksgiving. American Standard Version (1901) Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; Common English Bible Keep on praying and guard your prayers with thanksgiving. Catholic Public Domain Version Pursue prayer. Be watchful in prayer with acts of thanksgiving. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be instant in prayer; watching in it with thanksgiving: |
Keep watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Be on guard; stay alert and pray! For you do not know when the time is coming.
Then Jesus told them a parable about the need to pray at all times and not lose heart.
Therefore stay alert at all times, praying that you may be considered worthy to escape everything that will take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
With one accord they were all devoting themselves to prayer and supplication, along with Jesus' brothers and several women, including Mary the mother of Jesus.
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every prayer and supplication, and to this end, stay alert and be persistent in praying for all the saints.
Be anxious about nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God.
For this reason, from the day we heard this, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to our God and Father through him.
Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ, greets you, always striving for you in his prayers, so that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.
The end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be alert and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.