19 Bible Verses about Sleep, Physical

"Lord," said the disciples, "if he has fallen asleep, he will get better." Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,

for sleepers sleep by night and drunkards are drunk by night,

On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in the one bed, the one will be taken and the other left;

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

And then you know what this Crisis means, you know it is high time to waken up; for Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. It is far on in the night, the day is almost here; so let us drop the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of the light;

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

Now a heavy storm came on at sea, so that the boat was buried under the waves. He was sleeping.

He was sleeping on the cushion in the stern, so they woke him up saying, "Teacher, are we to drown, for all you care?"

During the voyage he fell asleep. But when a gale of wind came down on the lake and they were being swamped and in peril,

The very night before Herod meant to have him produced, Peter lay asleep between two soldiers; he was fastened by two chains, and sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

A vision appeared to Paul by night, the vision of a Macedonian standing and appealing to him with the words, "Cross to Macedonia and help us."

and told them to say that "his disciples came at night and stole him when we were asleep."

Watch, in case he comes suddenly and finds you asleep.

Then he went to the disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "So the three of you could not watch with me for a single hour?

Then he came and found them asleep; so he said to Peter, "Are you sleeping, Simon? Could you not watch for a single hour?

Then rising from prayer he went to the disciples, only to find them asleep from sheer sorrow. He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not slip into temptation."

In the window sat a young man called Eutychus, and as Paul's address went on and on, he got overcome with drowsiness, went fast asleep, and fell from the third storey. He was picked up a corpse,

Now Peter and his companions had been overpowered with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men who were standing beside him.

but while men slept his enemy came and resowed weeds among the wheat and then went away.