13 (A)Love not sleep, lest you (B)come to poverty;
    open your eyes, and you will have (C)plenty of bread.

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11 Do not be slothful in zeal, (A)be fervent in spirit,[a] (B)serve the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 12:11 Or fervent in the Spirit

15 (A)Slothfulness casts into (B)a deep sleep,
    and (C)an idle person will suffer hunger.

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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.

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11 (A)Whoever works his land (B)will have plenty of bread,
    (C)but he who follows (D)worthless pursuits lacks sense.

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A slack hand (A)causes poverty,
    (B)but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

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

(A)“Awake, O sleeper,
    and (B)arise from the dead,
and (C)Christ will shine on you.”

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So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, (A)call out to your god! (B)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

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(A)The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
    while the soul of the diligent (B)is richly supplied.

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(A)How long will you lie there, (B)O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?
10 (C)A little sleep, a little slumber,
    (D)a little (E)folding of the hands to rest,
11 (F)and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

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10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: (A)If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

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34 (A)Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For (B)some have no knowledge of God. (C)I say this to your shame.

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30 (A)I passed by the field of a sluggard,
    by the vineyard of a man (B)lacking sense,
31 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;
    the ground was covered with nettles,
    and its stone (C)wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw and (D)considered it;
    I looked and received instruction.
33 (E)A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

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