Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Bible References

Why sleep ye

Luke 22:40
And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
Luke 21:34
But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

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