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

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.

⁸ Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

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.

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.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

⁴ But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

⁷ For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

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