31 Bible Verses about Sleeping Peacefully
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In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; for thou, Jehovah, alone makest me to dwell in safety.
when thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid, but thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure 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 lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth 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 put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land.
He entereth into peace: they rest in their beds, each one that hath walked in his uprightness.
And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that 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 rest satisfied without being 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 in safety in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
And I will make a covenant for them in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will break bow and sword and battle out of the land; and I will make them to lie down safely.
For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast 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 first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
And lo, an angel of the Lord came there, and a light shone in the prison: and having smitten the side of Peter, he roused him up, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off his hands.
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.
And I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.
Thou hast put joy in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their new wine was in abundance.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's meat. 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 do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also 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 in his days I will give peace and quietness unto Israel.
