7 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

Lest, coming suddenly, he find you, sleeping.

His watchmen, are blind None of them, know, All of them, are dumb dogs, they cannot bark, - Dreaming, sleeping, loving to slumber.

Be watching, therefore, for ye know not, when, the master of the house, is coming, - whether at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at early morn; -

Even as it is written - God hath given unto them a spirit of stupor, - eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, - until this very day;

And, this besides, - knowing the season - that it is an hour already for you out of sleep to be wakened; for, now, is our salvation nearer than when we believed:

Wherefore it saith - Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

Hence, then, let us not be sleeping, as the rest, but let us watch and be sober: -