31 Bible Verses about Sleeping Peacefully
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In peace I will both lie down and sleep,
For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.
When you lie down, you will not be afraid;
When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation,
And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
It is vain for you to rise up early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of painful labors;
For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
The sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.
I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.
He enters into peace;
They rest in their beds,
Each one who walked in his upright way.
On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.
The fear of the Lord leads to life,
So that one may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil.
“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.
As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
“In that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
The birds of the sky
And the creeping things of the ground.
And I will abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land,
And will make them lie down in safety.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.
leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands.
The watchman says,
“Morning comes but also night.
If you would inquire, inquire;
Come back again.”
“But he who listens to me shall live securely
And will be at ease from the dread of evil.”
So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
You have put gladness in my heart,
More than when their grain and new wine abound.
The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,” says the Lord.
“For you will be in league with the stones of the field,
And the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.
