Waking Up

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? — read the full passage →

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; — read the full passage →

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you.

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Pray without ceasing.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” — read the full passage →

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, — read the full passage →

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, — read the full passage →

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; — read the full passage →

Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. — read the full passage →

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. — read the full passage →

Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises. — read the full passage →

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. — read the full passage →

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? — read the full passage →

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”

“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” — read the full passage →

For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum! — read the full passage →

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. — read the full passage →

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; — read the full passage →

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. — read the full passage →

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.’

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,