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33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,(A)

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So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(A) for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.(B) But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.(C)

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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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Footnotes

  1. 6.5 Cn: Heb from the hand

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

“Sleeper, awake!
    Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”(A)

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