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Luke 22:46
Luke 22:46 is verse 46 of Luke chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
King James Version
And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
World English Bible
and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
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Luke 22:44–48 · Berean Standard Bible
44 And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
45 When Jesus rose from prayer and returned to the disciples, He found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
46 “Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
47 While He was still speaking, a crowd arrived, led by the man called Judas, one of the Twelve. He approached Jesus to kiss Him.
48 But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 22:40When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”
Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
Luke 21:35For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.
Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Proverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
Proverbs 6:7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
Proverbs 6:8it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Proverbs 6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Proverbs 6:11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
Jonah 1:6The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”