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

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.

But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And 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.

And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

His watchmen {are} blind: they are all ignorant, they {are} all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. {sleeping: or, dreaming, or, talking in their sleep}

{Yet} a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {he: or, it}

I sleep, but my heart waketh: {it is} the voice of my beloved that knocketh, {saying}, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, {and} my locks with the drops of the night.

And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.