Jonah 1:6
1:6 The ship’s captain approached him and said, “What are you doing asleep?
Get up! Cry out
to your god! Perhaps your god
might take notice of us
so that we might not die!”
Matthew 25:5-7
25:5 When
the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
25:6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.’
25:7 Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew 26:40-41
26:40 Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He
said to Peter, “So, couldn’t you stay awake with me for one hour?
26:41 Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 13:35-37
13:35 Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return – whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn –
13:36 or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.
13:37 What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!”
Mark 13:1
The Destruction of the Temple
13:1 Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!”
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Ephesians 5:14
5:14 For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says:
“Awake, O sleeper!
Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you!”
Ephesians 5:1
Live in Love
5:1 Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children
Ephesians 5:5-8
5:5 For you can be confident of this one thing:
that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Live in the Light
5:6 Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
5:7 Therefore do not be partakers with them,
5:8 for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –