Proverbs 6:9

WEB

⁹How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

KJV

⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

BSB

⁹How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

FBV

⁹So how long are you going to lie there, you slacker? When are you going to get up from your sleep?

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Proverbs 24:33-34

³³a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, ³⁴so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

Psalms 94:8

⁸Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Ephesians 5:14

¹⁴Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Jeremiah 4:14

¹⁴Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Proverbs 1:22

²²“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

²For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. ³For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. ⁴But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. ⁵You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, ⁶so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. ⁷For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

Romans 13:11

¹¹Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

John 1:6

⁶There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.