Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Indeed the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Colossians 4:2 - English Majority Text Version Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; Higit pang 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: |
Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Indeed the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Take heed, stay awake and pray; for you do not know when the time is.
Then He spoke a parable to them, that one must always pray and not lose heart,
Watch therefore, praying always that you may be counted worthy to escape everything that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
These were continuing with one mind in prayer and petition, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
rejoicing in hope, enduring in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
through every prayer and petition, praying in every season in the Spirit, being watchful to this same thing with all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints--
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition, along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
On account of this we also, since the day we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
having been rooted and built up in Him and being established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
And whatever you may do in word or deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.
Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.