Mark 13:36

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Mark 13:36

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

He find

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And he came, and found them sleeping, and said unto Peter, Simon, do you sleep? could you not watch one hour?

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming;

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with carousing, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

And when he rose up from prayer, and came to his disciples, he found them sleeping from the grief,

And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man comes.

Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.

Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not.