Top 30 Bible Verses about 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.

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.

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

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

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel; my heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

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?

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

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

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

He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.

Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

Then He came to His disciples and said to them, Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes—Keep sound wisdom and discretion;

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

However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.

For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one does not go to sleep day or night,

Like a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

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.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—

And you would be secure, because there is hope; Yes, you would dig around you and take your rest in safety.

Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my salvation.

They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

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

I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

After this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me.

So he ran to Eli and said, Here I am, for you called me. He answered, I did not call you; lie down again. And he went and lay down.

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

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

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

The best way to prepare for sleep is to believe you can't.

The possibility of an accident is always in the air, but there is also the possibility of a dream.

Sleep is the only restorative that can make us forget life.