7 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.

All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day."

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: "Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!"

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.