1 Corinthians 16:13
Good News Translation
Be alert, stand firm in the faith, be brave, be strong.

New Revised Standard Version
Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.

Contemporary English Version
Keep alert. Be firm in your faith. Stay brave and strong.

New American Bible
Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

Watch.

Matthew 24:42-44 Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come. . . .

Matthew 25:13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Matthew 26:41 Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Mark 13:33-37 Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. . . .

Mark 14:37,38 And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour? . . .

Luke 12:35-40 Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. . . .

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

Ephesians 6:18 By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:

Colossians 4:2 Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

2 Timothy 4:5 But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 3:2,3 Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I find not thy works full before my God. . . .

Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

stand.

1 Corinthians 15:1,2,58 Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:24 0

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

Philippians 4:1 Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Colossians 1:23 If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 3:8 Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.

quit.

1 Corinthians 9:25-27 And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

1 Samuel 4:9 Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.

2 Samuel 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

1 Chronicles 19:13 Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which is good in his sight.

Ephesians 6:13-17 Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day and to stand in all things perfect. . . .

1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called and be it confessed a good confession before many witnesses.

2 Timothy 2:3-5 Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. . . .

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.

Hebrews 11:32-34 And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets: . . .

be.

Joshua 1:6,7,9,18 Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this people the land for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them. . . .

1 Kings 2:2 I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself a man.

1 Chronicles 28:10 Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen thee to build the house of the sanctuary, take courage, and do it.

Psalm 27:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Isaiah 35:4 Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will save you.

Daniel 10:19 And he said: Fear not, O man of desires, peace be to thee: take courage, and be strong. And when he spoke to me, I grew strong, and I said: Speak, O my lord, for thou hast strengthened me.

Daniel 11:32 And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully dissemble: but the people that know their God shall prevail and succeed.

Haggai 2:4 Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord, and take courage, Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and take courage, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts: and perform (for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts)

Zechariah 8:9,13 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strengthened, you that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, in the day that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded, that the temple might be built. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. . . .

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.

Colossians 1:11,12 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy, . . .

2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in Christ Jesus:

Context
Concluding Exhortations
12And touching our brother Apollo, I give you to understand that I much entreated him to come unto you with the brethren: and indeed it was not his will at all to come at this time. But he will come when he shall have leisure. 13Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened. 14Let all your things be done in charity.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:9
Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.

2 Samuel 10:12
Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

Psalm 31:24
Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Matthew 24:42
Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.

1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand.

Galatians 5:1
Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

Ephesians 3:16
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man:

Ephesians 6:10
Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

Philippians 4:1
Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Colossians 1:11
Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

1 Thessalonians 3:8
Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.

1 Corinthians 16:12
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