Early rising

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• Mark 1:35

  And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

• Proverbs 31:15

  She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

• Psalms 5:3

  My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

• Proverbs 6:9–11

  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

• Psalms 119:147

  I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

• Psalms 143:8

  Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

• Psalms 57:8

  Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

• Psalms 108:2

  Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

• Psalms 119:148

  Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

• Psalms 127:2

  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

• Job 1:5

  And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

• Romans 13:12

  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

• Isaiah 26:9

  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

• Exodus 8:20

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Exodus 24:4

  And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Luke 1:78

  Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

• Genesis 19:27

  And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

• Psalms 130:6

  My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

• John 8:2

  And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

• Exodus 9:13

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Psalms 30:5

  For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

• Proverbs 27:14

  He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

• Exodus 34:4

  And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

• Psalms 90:14

  O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

• Mark 16:2

  And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

• Proverbs 20:13

  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

• Psalms 42:8

  Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

• Judges 21:4

  And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

• Luke 21:38

  And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5

  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

• Luke 24:1

  Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

• Acts 5:21

  And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

• 1 Samuel 15:12

  And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

• Joshua 6:15

  And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

• Ecclesiastes 11:6

  In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

• Psalms 121:6

  The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

• Isaiah 50:4

  The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

• John 3:19–21

  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

• Psalms 63:1

  A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

• Luke 1:79

  To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.