6 Bible Verses about Sleep, Warnings Against

Beware lest He should arrive unexpectedly and find you asleep.

Be wakeful therefore, for you know not when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at cock-crow, or at dawn.

And so Scripture says, "God has given them a spirit of drowsiness--eyes to see nothing with and ears to hear nothing with--even until now."

Carry out these injunctions because you know the critical period at which we are living, and that it is now high time, to rouse yourselves from sleep; for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first became believers.

For this reason it is said, "Rise, sleeper; rise from among the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you."

So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.