Waking up

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• Ephesians 5:14

  Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

• 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 57:8

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

• 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.

• Romans 13:11

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

• 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.

• 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 20:13

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

• Psalms 108:2

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

• 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.

• Mark 13:35–37

  Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

• Psalms 17:15

  As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

• Jonah 1:6

  So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

• Isaiah 60:1

  Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

• Psalms 139:18

  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

• Song of Solomon 2:10

  My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

• Isaiah 26:19

  Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

• Proverbs 31:15

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

• Psalms 3:5

  I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

• Psalms 90:14

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

• 1 Thessalonians 5:6

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

• John 11:11–14

  These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. …

• 1 Thessalonians 5:17

  Pray without ceasing.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5–8

  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. …

• 1 Corinthians 15:34

  Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

• Luke 22:69

  Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.

• Isaiah 51:17

  Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

• Jeremiah 31:26

  Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5–6

  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

• Acts 12:4

  And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

• Luke 9:32

  But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

• John 3:2

  The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

• Luke 24:36

  And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

• Proverbs 24:33–34

  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.

• Genesis 28:16

  And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

• Song of Solomon 2:7

  I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

• Mark 13:36

  Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

• Romans 8:14

  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.