Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before [a]God.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 3:2 NU, M My God

14 Therefore He says:

(A)“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”

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15 (A)“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, (B)lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”

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13 (A)Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty;
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.

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(A)Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
And like a bird from the hand of the [a]fowler.

The Folly of Indolence

(B)Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise,
Which, having no [b]captain,
Overseer or ruler,
Provides her [c]supplies in the summer,
And gathers her food in the harvest.
(C)How long will you [d]slumber, O sluggard?
When will you rise from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep—
11 (D)So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler,
And your need like an armed man.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:5 One who catches birds in a trap or snare
  2. Proverbs 6:7 Lit. leader
  3. Proverbs 6:8 Lit. bread
  4. Proverbs 6:9 Lit. lie down

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