⁹ How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

³⁴ So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.

⁸ Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?

²² "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?

¹⁴ Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

¹¹ 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.

¹⁴ Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

² For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

³ For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

⁴ But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

⁵ You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

⁶ so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

⁷ For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.

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