Sleeping

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• Psalms 4:8

  I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

• Proverbs 3:24

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

• Psalms 127:2

  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

• Proverbs 20:13

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

• John 14:27

  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

• Proverbs 6:9

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

• Matthew 8:24

  And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

• Psalms 3:5

  I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

• Psalms 121:3–4

  He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

• Revelation 11:1–19

  And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. …

• Matthew 11:28

  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

• Matthew 11:28–30

  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

• Philippians 4:6–7

  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

• Ecclesiastes 5:12

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

• Isaiah 26:3

  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

• Matthew 9:24

  He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

• Isaiah 26:3–4

  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

• Philippians 4:6

  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

• Psalms 132:4

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

• John 11:11

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

• Psalms 29:11

  The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

• Romans 8:26

  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

• Isaiah 41:10

  Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

• Psalms 56:3

  What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

• Matthew 6:34

  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

• Daniel 2:1

  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• Ephesians 5:14

  Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

• John 11:12

  Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

• Proverbs 6:10

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

• Esther 6:1

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

• Jeremiah 31:26

  Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

• Psalms 127:1–2

  A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

• Psalms 3:3–6

  But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. …

• Job 14:12

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

• Luke 1:37

  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

• Genesis 2:21

  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 instead thereof;

• 1 Peter 5:7

  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

• 1 Kings 19:5

  And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

• Matthew 26:45

  Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto 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.