Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.
He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.
And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.
Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.
It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.