Proverbs 6:9
How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
BSB
ASV
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
KJV
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
How long, sluggard, will you sleep? etc. How long will you sleep in vices when you can rise to do well, you who, weighed down by noxious sloth, always say, "Let me still lie a little, and thus afterward I will rise by repenting"? For …
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?.... Or "lie" (q) in bed, indulging in sloth and ease; while the industrious ant is busy in getting in its provisions, even by moonlight, as naturalists (r) observe; when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? and be about thy lawful calling? doing the duties of religion, and the business of life; providing things honest in the sight of all men; things necessary for thyself and family, and wherewith to do good to others; exercising a conscience void of offence both to God and men.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ephesians 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her…
So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
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Romans 13:11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
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For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”