This is not your rest: … it is polluted, it shall destroy you. – Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. – If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. – Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise therefore. |
Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. – Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. |
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. – Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. – Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. – 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. |