Bible Cross References
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs 6:4-11
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Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.
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Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.
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Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.
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They have no leader, chief, or ruler,
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but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.
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How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?
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"I'll just take a short nap," he says; "I'll fold my hands and rest a while."
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But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.
Romans 13:11
You must do this, because you know that the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep. For the moment when we will be saved is closer now than it was when we first believed.
Ephesians 5:14
for anything that is clearly revealed becomes light. That is why it is said, "Wake up, sleeper, and rise from death, and Christ will shine on you."
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
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So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober.
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It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk.
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But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.