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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Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids;
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that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.
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Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
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For whereas he has no leader, nor anyone to compel him, and is under no master,
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he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays up abundant supplies in harvest. [ 6:8A] Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; [ 6:8B] whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: [ 6:8C] though weak in body, she is advanced by honoring wisdom.
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How long will you lie, O sluggard? And when will you awake out of sleep?
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You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short time, and you fold your arms over your breast a little.
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Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveler, and your need as a swift courier. [ 6:11A] But if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
Romans 13:11
And do this, knowing the time, that [it is] already [the] hour for us to be roused out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
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Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
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For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those getting drunk, are drunk at night.
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But we, since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.