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Proverbs 6:9

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How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?

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If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

"Little ones, how long will you choose to be childish, and how long will the foolish desire what is harmful to themselves, and how long will the imprudent hate knowledge?

Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.

Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread.

Just as a door turns upon its hinges, so also does the lazy one turn upon his bed.

You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,

Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.

she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.

The foolish man folds his hands together, and he consumes his own flesh, saying:

Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?

There was a man sent by God, whose name was John.

And we know the present time, that now is the hour for us to rise up from sleep. For already our salvation is closer than when we first believed.

Because of this, it is said: "You who are sleeping: awaken, and rise up from the dead, and so shall the Christ enlighten you."




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