Proverbs 6:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

How long will you lie there doing nothing at all? When are you going to get up and stop sleeping?

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

Can't you fools see? Won't you ever learn?

Proverbs 1:22

“How much longer will you enjoy being stupid fools? Won't you ever stop sneering and laughing at knowledge?

Proverbs 19:15

If you are lazy and sleep your time away, you will starve.

Proverbs 20:13

If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.

Proverbs 26:14

A door turns on its hinges, but a lazy person just turns over in bed.

Proverbs 6:10

Sleep a little. Doze a little. Fold your hands and twiddle your thumbs.

Proverbs 6:6

You lazy people can learn by watching an anthill.

Proverbs 6:8

but they store up food during harvest season.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

Fools will fold their hands and starve to death.

Jeremiah 4:14

But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,

John 1:6

God sent a man named John,

Romans 13:11

You know what sort of times we live in, and so you should live properly. It is time to wake up. You know that the day when we will be saved is nearer now than when we first put our faith in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:14

Light shows up everything, just as the Scriptures say, “Wake up from your sleep and rise from death. Then Christ will shine on you.”