Proverbs 6:9

“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.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

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.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

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

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

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.”

I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

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.

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

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

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.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

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 the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

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.

before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

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.

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.

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.”

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

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

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

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

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

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

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

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

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

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

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

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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

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

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

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

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.”

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