Watchful attention. Christ repeatedly commands it: Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation (Matt 26:41); Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is (Mark 13:33). Paul commands it as the first of his five military imperatives in 1 Corinthians 16:13: Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Peter intensifies in 1 Peter 5:8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. The Greek gregoreo (to be awake, watchful) names both the disposition (alertness) and the practice (sustained wakefulness). The biblical man is not paranoid but not drowsy — engaged-with-reality, aware of threats, attentive to the times. The Christian who has cultivated alertness sees temptation forming before it strikes; the drowsy Christian wakes up only after the fall.