6 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

for fear by his sudden return he should surprize you sleeping.

watch ye therefore (for you don't know when the master of the house will return; whether at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning)

as it is written, "God hath given them up to a state of insensibility, so that their eyes could not see, and their ears could not hear."

Consider likewise the present season, that now it is high time to rouse out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

wherefore 'tis said, " awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

therefore let us not sleep away our time like others, but be vigilant and temperate.