Proverbs 6:9

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How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:33-34 : 33 “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, 34 and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
  • 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 5:2-7 : 2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night. 3 Now when they are saying,“There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape. 4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would. 5 For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness. 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.
  • John 1:6 : 6 A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

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  • Prov 6:10-11
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    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.

  • Prov 24:33-34
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    33“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

    34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

  • Prov 19:15
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    15Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

  • Prov 6:4-8
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    4Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

    5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

    7It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,

    8yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.

  • Prov 20:13
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    13Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

  • Prov 26:13-16
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    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”

    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.

    16The sluggard is wiser in his own opinion than seven people who respond with good sense.

  • Prov 20:4
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    4The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.

  • Ps 127:2
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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 21:25
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    25What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands have refused to work.

  • Prov 19:24
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    24The sluggard has plunged his hand into the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

  • Prov 13:4
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    4The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

  • Prov 10:26
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    26Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 12:27
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    27The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks sense.

  • Prov 18:9
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    9The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

  • Prov 15:19
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    19The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

  • Prov 22:13
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    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

  • Prov 10:4-5
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    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.

  • Luke 22:46
    71%

    46So he said to them,“Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!”

  • Eccl 5:12
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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.

  • Prov 12:24
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    24The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will be put to forced labor.

  • Ps 44:23
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    23Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!

  • Mark 13:36
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    36or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.

  • Job 14:12
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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.

  • 1 Thess 5:6
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    6So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

  • Job 7:4
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    4If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

  • Prov 6:22
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    22When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

  • Eph 5:14
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    14For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

  • Prov 31:15
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    15Then she rose while it was still night, and provided food for her household and a portion to her female servants.

  • Prov 23:21
    68%

    21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Jer 31:26
    68%

    26Then they will say,‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.’”

  • Exod 5:17
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    17But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”

  • Ps 132:4
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    4I will not allow my eyes to sleep, or my eyelids to slumber,

  • Gal 6:9
    68%

    9So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

  • Eccl 8:16
    68%

    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–

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

  • Matt 25:26
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    26But his master answered,‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?

  • Prov 31:27
    67%

    27Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.