7 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, they love to slumber.

Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the Lord of the house comes: at evening or at midnight or at the cockcrowing or in the morning,

(according as it is written, God has given them the spirit of anguish, eyes with which they do not see and ears with which they do not hear) unto this day.

And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awaken ourselves out of sleep, for now is our saving health nearer than when we believed.

Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.