Proverbs 6:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 24:33-34 : 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. 34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-7 : 2 For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
  • John 1:6 : 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:10-11
    2 verses
    88%

    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    81%

    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Prov 19:15
    81%

    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 6:4-8
    5 verses
    80%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

    5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

    7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

    8Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

  • Prov 20:13
    77%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 26:13-16
    4 verses
    77%

    13The lazy man says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

    14As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy one turn upon his bed.

    15The lazy man hides his hand in his bosom; it grieves him to bring it back to his mouth.

    16The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can give an answer.

  • Prov 20:4
    76%

    4The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he shall beg during harvest, and have nothing.

  • Ps 127:2
    75%

    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • Prov 21:25
    74%

    25The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • Prov 19:24
    74%

    24A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 13:4
    74%

    4The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

  • Prov 10:26
    73%

    26As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

  • Eccl 10:18
    73%

    18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 12:27
    72%

    27The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is a man's precious possession.

  • Prov 24:30
    72%

    30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.

  • Prov 18:9
    72%

    9He who is slothful in his work is brother to him who is a great waster.

  • Prov 15:19
    72%

    19The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

  • Prov 22:13
    72%

    13The slothful man says, 'There is a lion outside; I shall be slain in the streets.'

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

    5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

  • Luke 22:46
    71%

    46And said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.

  • Eccl 5:12
    71%

    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Prov 12:24
    71%

    24The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.

  • Ps 44:23
    71%

    23Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever.

  • Mark 13:36
    71%

    36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Job 14:12
    70%

    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • 1 Thess 5:6
    70%

    6Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober.

  • Job 7:4
    70%

    4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

  • Prov 6:22
    69%

    22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

  • Eph 5:14
    69%

    14Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

  • Prov 31:15
    68%

    15She rises also while it is yet night, and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

  • Prov 23:21
    68%

    21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

  • Prov 4:16
    68%

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Jer 31:26
    68%

    26Upon this I awoke, and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Exod 5:17
    68%

    17But he said, You are idle, you are idle: therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

  • Ps 132:4
    68%

    4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

  • Gal 6:9
    68%

    9And let us not grow weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

  • Eccl 8:16
    68%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

  • Job 33:15
    68%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • Matt 25:26
    68%

    26But his lord answered and said to him, You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.

  • Prov 31:27
    67%

    27She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.