¹³ Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

¹⁵ Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

¹¹ Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

¹¹ He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

⁹ How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

¹¹ Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

¹⁰ For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

³⁴ Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

¹¹ See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

³⁰ I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

³¹ And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

³² Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.

³³ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

³⁴ So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

⁴ The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

⁴ He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

⁶ And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.