How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
The fool folds his hands, and eats his own flesh.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;
Therefore it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.”