Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
He becomes poor who has a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after worthless pursuits shall have poverty enough.
She rises also while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and a portion to her maidservants.
So the captain came to him, and said unto him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.