Top 30 Bible Verses about Sleep

I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep.

But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid; Yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet.

Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

Therefore He says: Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.

I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds.

Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.

But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Now as he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.

I sleep, but my heart is awake; It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, Open for me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is covered with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.

So man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused from their sleep.

Then He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?

The stouthearted were plundered; they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found the use of their hands.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.

And I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.’

Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

Our God is the God of salvation; and to God, the Lord, belong escapes from death.

For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

Ideals are dangerous, but sleep is a good refuge.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. And she wrote about sleep.”

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself, especially at sleep.