Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine eyes, being filled with bread.
Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.
In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;
He working his earth shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing vain things wanted heart.
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.
And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.
And the chief sailor will draw near to him and say to him, What to thee, thou snoring? Arise, and call to thy God; perhaps thy God will work for us and we shall not perish.
Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.
Evil, evil, he buying will say: and departing to him, and then he will boast
He working his land shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing the vain shall be filled with poverty.
She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls.