Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

gird.

Exodus 12:11 And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.

1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.

2 Kings 4:29 Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

Job 38:3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Job 40:7 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Isaiah 11:5 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.

Jeremiah 1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee not to fear their countenance.

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

Luke 17:8 And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper and gird thyself and serve me, whilst I eat and drink; and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink?

Ephesians 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of justice:

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.

Luke 21:34,35 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly. . . .

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

1 Thessalonians 5:6,7 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober. . . .

hope.

1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: . . .

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.

Romans 15:4-13 For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope. . . .

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

Hebrews 6:19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil:

1 John 3:3 And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

to the end.

1 Peter 1:4-9 Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you, . . .

Luke 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.

1 Corinthians 1:7 So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power:

2 Timothy 4:8 As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

Hebrews 9:28 So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many. The second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.

Hebrews 10:35 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.