15 Bible Verses about Attitudes While Waiting For Second Coming

and be you like unto men waiting for their lord, when he may rise up from the marriage feast; in order that, coming and knocking, they may open unto him immediately.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I charge you before God, who creates life in all things, and Jesus Christ, who witnessed a beautiful testimony before Pontius Pilate, that you keep the commandment, spotless and pure, unto the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of the kings, and Lord of the lords, will manifest in his own due times;

But you, O man of God, fly from these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, divine love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses. I charge you before God, who creates life in all things, and Jesus Christ, who witnessed a beautiful testimony before Pontius Pilate,read more.
that you keep the commandment, spotless and pure, unto the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of the kings, and Lord of the lords, will manifest in his own due times; he alone having immortality, inhabiting light unapproachable; whom no one of men has seen, or is able to see: to whom be honor and power eternal. Amen.

Watch therefore: for you know not when the Lord of the house cometh, late, or at midnight, or at the crowing of the cock, or in the morning;

Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain:

And they going to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

Let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to him! because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.

Let your loins be girted, and your lamps burning;

then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober.

Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach, not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover; ruling his own house beautifully; having children in subordination with all gravity;read more.
but if any one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God? not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil. But it also behooves him indeed to have a beautiful testimony from the aliens, in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. Likewise let the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not fond of filthy lucre; having the testimony of faith in a pure conscience. And let them also first be proven; then let them minister the office of deacon, being irreproachable. Likewise let their wives be grave, not tattlers, modest, faithful in all things.

but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate;

That the elderly men be sober, grave, prudent, sound in faith, in divine love, in patience: likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good; in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,read more.
to be prudent, chaste, domestic, good, submissive to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Likewise exhort the young men to be prudent: concerning all things exhibiting yourself an example of good works; in teaching; purity, gravity, the sound word, irrefutable, in order that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning us. That servants submit to their own masters, that they be obedient in all things; not speaking back; not purloining, but exhibiting all good faith, that they may adorn the teaching of God our Saviour in all things. For the grace of God, that brings salvation to all men, has appeared, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must live prudently and righteously and holily in this present age;

Therefore having girded up the loins of your minds, being perfectly sober, hope unto the grace which is conferred on you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

But the end of all things is at hand. Therefore be prudent, and sober unto prayers: