³⁶ lest ^(A)he come suddenly and ^(B)find you asleep.

⁶ So then ^(A)let us not sleep, as others do, but let us ^(B)keep awake and ^(C)be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, ^(D)are drunk at night.

¹¹ Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you ^(A)to wake from sleep. ^(B)For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. ^12 (C)The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us ^(D)cast off ^(E)the works of darkness and ^(F)put on the armor of light. ^13 (G)Let us walk properly as in the daytime, ^(H)not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, ^(I)not in quarreling and jealousy. ¹⁴ But ^(J)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, ^(K)to gratify its desires.

Watch Yourselves

³⁴ “But watch yourselves ^(A)lest ^(B)your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and ^(C)cares of this life, and ^(D)that day come upon you suddenly ^(E)like a trap.

⁴⁰ And again he came and found them sleeping, for ^(A)their eyes were very heavy, and ^(B)they did not know what to answer him.

⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master ^(A)is delayed,’ ⁴⁹ and begins to beat his fellow servants^[a] and eats and drinks with ^(B)drunkards, ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come ^(C)on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know ⁵¹ and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place ^(D)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

⁴⁵ And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,

³⁷ And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?