Mark 13:36

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Mark 13:36

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

He find

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He find

And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, dost thou sleep? Hast thou not been able to watch one hour?

How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!

On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.

His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:

But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

Now the bridegroom tarrying, they all grew heavy and slept.

But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;

And rising up from his prayer, coming to the disciples, he found them sleeping from grief.

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

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Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:

Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the time is:

And ye therefore, be ye ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think it, the Son of man comes.