Mark 13:36
Good News Translation
If he comes suddenly, he must not find you asleep.

New Revised Standard Version
or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly.

Contemporary English Version
But if he comes suddenly, don't let him find you asleep.

New American Bible
May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.

he find.

Mark 14:37,40 And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour? . . .

Proverbs 6:9-11 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep: . . .

Proverbs 24:33,34 Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest. . . .

Songs 3:1 In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.

Songs 5:2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.

Matthew 24:48-51 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming: . . .

Matthew 25:5 And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Luke 22:45 And when he rose up from prayer and was come to the disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow.

Romans 13:11-14 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. . . .

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

1 Thessalonians 5:6,7 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober. . . .

Context
Readiness at Any Hour
35Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning): 36Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping. 37And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.…
Cross References
Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Mark 13:35
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