31 Bible Verses about Sleeping Peacefully

In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for Jehovah sustaineth me.

And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; For'so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.

There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.

And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.

The fear of Jehovah tendeth to life; And he that hath it'shall abide satisfied; He shall not be visited with evil.

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.

But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Then shalt thou walk in thy way securely, And thy foot shall not stumble.

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shined in the cell: and he smote Peter on the side, and awoke him, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their grain and their new wine are increased.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days: