Bible Verses About Sleep

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: but thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

Then Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took to him his wife:

Then he cometh to his disciples, and saith to them, Sleep on now, and take [your] rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

These things he said: and after that he saith to them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

And this, 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 will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for thou only, LORD, makest me dwell in safety.

Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep [the sleep] of death;

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

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

Give not sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

And said to them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Now Jesus spoke of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking rest in sleep.

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set: and he took of the stones of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.

[Thus] I was; in the day the drouth consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

For that [is] his only covering, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth to me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.

In any case thou shalt deliver to him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness to thee before the LORD thy God.

And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will rise up, and commit idolatry with the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

And she said, the Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD had departed from him.

And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep];

So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they departed, and no man saw [it], nor knew [it], neither awaked: for they [were] all asleep: because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.

And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

In that night the king could not sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [shall be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

The sleep of a laboring man [is] sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.