Proverbs 19:15

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

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

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

Do 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.

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

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.