How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
“How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
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.
Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.
Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
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.
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”