Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.