Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
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