{Yet} a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and {ye} fools, when will ye be wise?

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {he: or, it}

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

And that, knowing the time, that now {it is} high time to awake out of sleep: for now {is} our salvation nearer than when we believed.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

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

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, {and} thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe {a man} with rags.

A slothful {man} hideth his hand in {his} bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall {shall ye be, and as} a tottering fence.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

{As} the door turneth upon his hinges, so {doth} the slothful upon his bed.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.