Proverbs 24:33

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

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

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

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.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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

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.

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.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

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.”

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

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

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

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

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

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

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

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

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

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

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