Proverbs 24:33
“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 6:4-9 : 4 Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler. 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, 8 yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat. 9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, 11 and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
- Rom 13:11 : 11 Motivation to Godly Conduct And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.
- Eph 5:14 : 14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”
- 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.
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- Prov 6:9-113 verses94%
9How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
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34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”
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13Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.
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15Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.
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4Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
- Prov 24:30-323 verses77%
30I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks sense.
31I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
32Then I scrutinized it. I was putting my mind to it– I saw; I took in a lesson:
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12The sleep of the laborer is pleasant– whether he eats little or much– but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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15In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
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2It is vain for you to rise early, come home late, and work so hard for your food. Yes, he provides for those whom he loves even when they sleep.
- Prov 26:14-152 verses75%
14Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
15The sluggard has plunged his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
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36or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.
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18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.
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24The sluggard has plunged his hand into the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!
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24The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will be put to forced labor.
- Prov 10:4-52 verses73%
4The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.
5The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.
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13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
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16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
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26Then they will say,‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.’”
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25What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands have refused to work.
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5When the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
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4I will not allow my eyes to sleep, or my eyelids to slumber,
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24When you lie down you will not be filled with fear; when you lie down your sleep will be pleasant.
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20For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.
- Eccl 4:5-62 verses71%
5The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.
6Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.
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21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
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16Limitations of Human Wisdom When I tried to gain wisdom and to observe the activity on earth– even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night–
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4The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.
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10You have slacked off in the day of trouble– your strength is small!
- 1 Thess 5:6-72 verses70%
6So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.
7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
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5The bravehearted were plundered; they“fell asleep.” All the warriors were helpless.
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13For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
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4The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.
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12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
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9The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.
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46So he said to them,“Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!”
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45Then he came to the disciples and said to them,“Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is approaching, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
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43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
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13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”
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23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.
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27The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.
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41He came a third time and said to them,“Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.