bSee ch. 6:9-11
Proverbs 3:28
28 aDo not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
Proverbs 13:4
4 bThe soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,while the soul of the diligent cis richly supplied.
Proverbs 22:13
13 dThe sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!I shall be killed in the streets!”
Matthew 25:5
5As the bridegroom ewas delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.Matthew 26:38-43
38Then he said to them, f“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and gwatch ▼▼Or keep awake; also verses 40, 41
with me.” 39And going a little farther he fell on his face iand prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let jthis cup pass from me; knevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” 40And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? 41 lWatch and mpray that you nmay not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 42Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, oyour will be done.” 43And again he came and found them sleeping, for ptheir eyes were heavy. Luke 11:7
7and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’?Romans 7:22-23
22For qI delight in the law of God, rin my inner being, 23but I see in my members sanother law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
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