You will feel as if you were out on the ocean, seasick, swinging high up in the rigging of a tossing ship.

The captain found him there and said to him, "What are you doing asleep? Get up and pray to your god for help. Maybe he will feel sorry for us and spare our lives."

Peter and his companions were sound asleep, but they woke up and saw Jesus' glory and the two men who were standing with him.

A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, and as Paul kept on talking, Eutychus got sleepier and sleepier, until he finally went sound asleep and fell from the third story to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead.

Everyone must obey state authorities, because no authority exists without God's permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God.

So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober.

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.