Mark 13:36

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Mark 13:36

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

He find

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Bible References

He find

And He *came and *found them sleeping, and *said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?

How long will you lie down, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?

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

“On my bed night after night I sought him

Whom my soul loves;

I sought him but did not find him.

“I was asleep but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,

My dove, my perfect one!

For my head is drenched with dew,
My locks with the damp of the night.’

His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,

Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’

Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.

“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow,

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.

For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”

so then let us not sleep as

others do, but let us be alert and

sober.

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Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”