19 Bible Verses about Sleep, Physical

Then they said to him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep he will recover. But Jesus spoke of his death; but they thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.

For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night;

I tell you, on that night two shall be on one bed; one shall be taken and the other left;

I must perform the works of him that sent me, while it is day; night comes when no man can work.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

And behold there was a great tempest on the lake, so that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was asleep.

And he was in the stern, on the pillow, asleep. And they awoke him and said to him, Teacher, do you not care that we perish?

and as they were sailing he fell asleep. And a tempest of wind came down on the lake, and they were flooded with water, and in peril.

And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards kept watch before the door.

And a vision appeared by night to Paul; a certain man of Macedonia standing, asking him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.

saying, Say that his disciples came by night and stole him while we slept;

lest, coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping.

And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Are you so unable to watch with me one hour?

And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Could you not watch one hour?

And rising from prayer, and coming to the disciples, he found them sleeping from grief, and he said to them, Why do you sleep? Arise, and pray that you may not enter into trial.

And a young man by the name of Eutychus sitting in a window, falling into a deep sleep while Paul preached long, and being overcome by sleep, fell from the third story down, and was taken up dead.

And Peter and those with him were oppressed with sleep; and when they awoke they saw his glory, and the two men standing with him.

and while the men slept, his enemy came and sowed poisonous darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away.