7 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

lest if he come suddenly, he should find you sleeping.

For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

Watch, therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house will come: whether at even, or at midnight; whether at the cock crowing, or in the dawning:

according as it is written, "God hath given them the spirit of unquietness: eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, even unto this day."

This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."

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