34 Bible Verses about Sleep, Spiritual
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Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined. Therefore be ye also prepared: for what hour ye think not, the Son of man comes.
And know this, that if the master of the house knew what hour the thief is coming, he had watched, and not have suffered his house to be undermined. And be ye therefore ready: for in the time which ye think not the Son of man is coming.
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning. Lest having come suddenly he find you sleeping.
And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers, Saying, Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and ye should not perceive: For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them.
And he will say, Go, and say to this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye shall not understand; and seeing, see ye, and ye shall not know. Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart shall understand and turn back and be healed to them.
And thou wert as he lying down in the heart of the sea, and as he lying down upon the head of the mast They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.
(As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day.
For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.
And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.
Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, who drank from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou didst drink the goblet cup of reeling, pressing out
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for the uncircumcised shall no more add to come into thee, and the unclean.
Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.
Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God.
(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)
Watch and pray, lest ye come into temptation: truly the spirit of a ready will, and the flesh weak.
And concerning that day and hour none knows, nor the messengers in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. See, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. As a man travelling, having left his house, and having given power to his servants, and to each his work, and he commanded the guard of the door that he should watch.
By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:
Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober. For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night. And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
And we will not draw back from thee: thou wilt cause us to live, and we will call upon thy name.
Wilt thou not turn back? wilt thou give us life? and thy people shall rejoice in thee.
And Jehovah will awake as he sleeping, as the strong one shouting from wine.
Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger, lift up thyself for the wrath of mine enemies: and awake to me the judgment thou didst command.
Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever. Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?
As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image.
To the overseer for the lilies of the testimonies; to Asaph a chanting. O thou feeding Israel, give ear, guiding Joseph as sheep.; thou dwelling in the cherubs, shine forth. Before Epraim and Benjainin add Manasseh raise up thy strength, and come to save for us.
Rouse up, rouse up, put on strength, thou arm of Jehovah; rouse up as the days of old, of everlasting generations. Was it not with him cutting off Rahab, wounding the sea monster?
He will not give to move thy foot: he watching thee will not slumber. Behold, he watching. Israel will not slumber and he will not sleep.
And it will be at noon, and Elijah will deride upon them, and he will say, Call with a great voice, for he a god: for he is talking, and because a withdrawing to him, and because a way to him, perhaps he is sleeping, and he will awake.
Wo! to him saying to the wood, Awake; and to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach. Being overlaid with gold and silver, and not any spirit in its midst.
