Scriptures about sleep, peaceful sleep, and dreams.
14 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Psalm 127:2
It is in vain for you to rise early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows, while He gives sleep to His beloved.
Psalm 4:8
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 3:5
I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord protects me.
Proverbs 3:24
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be pleasant.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not let him sleep.
Proverbs 6:9–11
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—11 and poverty will come upon you like a traveler, and want like an armed man. [But if you are not lazy, your harvest will come like a spring, and poverty will flee far from you.]
Mark 4:38
And He was sleeping in the stern on a cushion. They woke Him and said to Him: Teacher! Do You not care that we are perishing?
Genesis 28:12–15
12 And he dreamed: behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; [do not be afraid]. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring; 14 and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and to the north and the south; and in you and in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed; 15 and behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
1 Kings 3:5
At Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night, and God said: “Ask what I should give you.”
Matthew 1:20
But as he was considering this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 121:3–4
3 He will not let your foot slip; He who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Job 33:14–18
14 For God speaks once, and even twice, though no one notices: 15 in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber on their beds. 16 Then He opens their ears and seals His instruction, 17 to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, 18 to preserve their souls from the pit and their lives from perishing by the sword.
Romans 13:11
And you know what time it is: the hour has already come for you to wake up from sleep, because salvation is nearer to us now than it was then, when we believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:6–7
6 So then, let us not sleep like the rest, but let us stay awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
