For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.