7 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against
Most Relevant Verses
His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
Therefore, be on the alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—
just as it is written,
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,
Down to this very day.”
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.
For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”
so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.