7 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Therefore stay awake--for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning--

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

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.