7 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

lest he arrive suddenly [and] find you sleeping.

His watchmen [are] blind, none of them know. They [are] all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber.

Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming--whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning--

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

And [do] this [because you] know the time, that [it is] already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation [is] nearer now than when we believed.

for everything made visible is light. Therefore it says, Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled.