How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
“How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.