Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he who follows vanities lacks heart.
He who deals with a lazy hand becomes poor; but the hand of the hard worker makes rich.
The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing; but the soul of the hard worker shall be made fat.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat.
This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
And the chief of the seaman came to him and said to him, What is it to you, O sound sleeper? Arise, call upon your God! It may be that our god will notice us, and we will not perish.
Be righteously awake, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.
It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.
She also rises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and a share to her young women.