Proverbs 6:9
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of 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 sleep; 34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
- Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
- Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?
- Rom 13:11 : 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
- Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
- 1 Thess 5:2-7 : 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape. 4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. 5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness, 6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.
- John 1:6 : 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
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- Prov 6:10-112 verses88%
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 So your poverty will come as a robber, And your scarcity as an armed man.
- Prov 24:33-342 verses81%
33 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
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15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- Prov 6:4-85 verses80%
4 Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, Like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
7 Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
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13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
- Prov 26:13-164 verses77%
13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"
14 As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.
15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.
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4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To stay up late, Eating the bread of toil; For he gives sleep to his loved ones.
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25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, For his hands refuse to labor.
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24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; He will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
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4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, But the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
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26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to those who send him.
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18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; And through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
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27 The slothful man doesn't roast his game, But the possessions of diligent men are prized.
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30 I went by the field of the sluggard, By the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
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9 One who is slack in his work Is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
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19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, But the path of the upright is a highway.
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13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
- Prov 10:4-52 verses72%
4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, But he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
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46 and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
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12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, But laziness ends in slave labor.
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23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
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36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
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12 So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
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6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
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4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
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22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
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14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
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15 She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.
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21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
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26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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17 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'
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4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, Or slumber to my eyelids;
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9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.
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16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;
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26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
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27 She looks well to the ways of her household, And doesn't eat the bread of idleness.