Proverbs 6:9

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? [Prov. 24:33, 34.]

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

Consider and understand, you stupid ones among the people! And you [self-confident] fools, when will you become wise?

Proverbs 1:22

How long, O simple ones [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, and the idle person shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 26:14

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy man [move not from his place] upon his bed.

Proverbs 6:10

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down and sleep–

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!–[Job 12:7.]

Proverbs 6:8

Provides her food in the summer and gathers her supplies in the harvest.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh [destroying himself by indolence].

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved! How long shall your iniquitous and grossly offensive thoughts lodge within you?

John 1:6

There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. [Mal. 3:1.]

Romans 13:11

Besides this you know what [a critical] hour this is, how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah).

Ephesians 5:14

Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light. [Isa. 26:19; 60:1, 2.]