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And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

And {G2532} said {G2036} unto them {G846}, Why {G5101} sleep ye {G2518}? rise {G450} and pray {G4336}, lest {G3363} ye enter {G1525} into {G1519} temptation {G3986}.

He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you won’t be put to the test!”

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”

and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

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Cross-References

  • Luke 22:40 (9 votes)

    And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

  • Jonah 1:6 (7 votes)

    So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

  • Luke 21:34 (6 votes)

    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.

  • Luke 21:36 (6 votes)

    Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

  • Proverbs 6:4 (5 votes)

    Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

  • Proverbs 6:11 (5 votes)

    So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.