or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.

恐怕他忽然来到，看见你们睡着了。

免得他忽然来到，看见你们睡着了。

免得他忽然来到，看见你们睡着了。

别让他突然回来时看到你们在睡觉。

恐怕他忽然来到，发现你们正在睡觉。

免得他忽然回来，看见你们在睡觉。

恐怕他忽然來到，看見你們睡着了。

免得他忽然來到，看見你們睡着了。

免得他忽然來到，看見你們睡着了。

別讓他突然回來時看到你們在睡覺。

恐怕他忽然來到，發現你們正在睡覺。

恐怕他忽然來到，遇見你們在睡着。

免得他忽然回來，看見你們在睡覺。

我所語爾者、亦以語眾、宜儆醒也、

恐突如其來、遇爾寢焉、

恐其猝至、見爾寢焉、

突然駕返、見爾之睡也。

If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.

He may come suddenly. So do not let him find you sleeping.

lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.

Don’t let him find you sleeping when he arrives without warning.

Otherwise, when he comes suddenly he might find you sleeping.

so that he does not come suddenly and find you asleep.

lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.

lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Otherwise, he might come suddenly and find you sleeping.

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

But if that evil slave should say to himself,‘ My master is staying away a long time,’and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards,then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“ But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to tell him.

“ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,“ Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?

I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door!“ Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

When the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.

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!”

How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.