Proverbs 6:9

The Passion Translation

So wake up, sleepyhead. How long will you lie there? When will you wake up and get out of bed?

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

But you’d better watch out, you stupid fools! You’d better wise up! Why would you act like God doesn’t exist? Do you really think that God can’t hear their cries?

Proverbs 1:22

“Foolish ones, how much longer will you cling to your deception? How much longer will you mock wisdom, you cynical scorners who fight the facts?

Proverbs 19:15

Go ahead—be lazy and passive. But you’ll go hungry if you live that way.

Proverbs 20:13

If you spend all your time sleeping, you’ll grow poor. So wake up, sleepyhead! Don’t sleep on the job. And then there will be plenty of food on your table.

Proverbs 26:14

As a door is hinged to the wall, so the lazy man keeps turning over, hinged to his bed!

Proverbs 6:10

If you keep nodding off and thinking, “I’ll do it later,” or say to yourself, “I’ll just sit back awhile and take it easy,” just watch how the future unfolds!

Proverbs 6:6

When you’re feeling lazy, come and learn a lesson from this tale of the tiny ant. Yes, all you lazybones, come learn from the example of the ant and enter into wisdom.

Proverbs 6:8

You’ll see them working and toiling all summer long, stockpiling their food in preparation for winter.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. How long will evil thoughts and harmful schemes find a resting place in you?

John 1:6

Suddenly a man appeared who was sent from God, a messenger named John.

Romans 13:11

To live like this is all the more urgent, for time is running out and you know it is a strategic hour in human history. It is time for us to wake up! For our full salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Ephesians 5:14

This is why the Scripture says, “Arise, you sleeper! Rise up from your coffin and the Anointed One will shine his light into you!”