Proverbs 6:9

Modern English Version

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?

Cross References

Ephesians 5:14

Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you brutish among the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

Romans 13:11

Furthermore, knowing the time, now is the moment to awake from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge.

John 1:6

There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise,

Proverbs 6:8

provides her food in the summer and gathers her sustenance in the harvest.

Proverbs 6:10

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts a man into a deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have enough bread.

Proverbs 26:14

As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his hands for slothfulness, and eats his flesh for lack of food.