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46 and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”[a](A)

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  1. 22.46 Or into testing

40 When he reached the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”[a](A)

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  1. 22.40 Or into testing

Exhortation to Watch

34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,(A) 35 like a trap. For it will come upon all who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”(B)

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The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”(A)

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Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;(A)
save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,[a]
    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.(B)

Go to the ant, you lazybones;
    consider its ways and be wise.(C)
Without having any chief
    or officer or ruler,
it prepares its food in summer
    and gathers its sustenance in harvest.(D)
How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
    When will you rise from your sleep?(E)
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want, like an armed warrior.(F)

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  1. 6.5 Cn: Heb from the hand