¹⁹ but the cares of the age and the lure of wealth and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing.

⁴⁵ But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

⁶ So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,^(A)

⁷ for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.^(A)