Proverbs 6:9
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9 How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
When will you rise from your sleep?(A)
Proverbs 24:33-34
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33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,(A)
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want, like an armed warrior.
Ephesians 5:14
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14 for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,
“Sleeper, awake!
Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”(A)
1 Thessalonians 5:2-7
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2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.(A) 3 When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(B) 4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief;(C) 5 for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. 6 So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(D) 7 for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.(E)
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Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness
so that you may be saved.
How long shall your evil schemes
lodge within you?(A)
Psalm 94:8
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8 Understand, O dullest of the people;
fools, when will you be wise?(A)
Proverbs 1:22
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22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?(A)
Romans 13:11
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An Urgent Appeal
11 Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is already the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers;(A)
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John 1:6
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6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
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