31 Bible Verses about Sleeping Peacefully

I will both lay me down in peace and sleep: for thou only, O LORD, dost make me to be confident.

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 the LORD sustained me.

And my people shall dwell in a habitation of peace and in secure dwellings and in the refreshing of rest.

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,

It is vain for you to rise up early, to come home late, to eat the bread of sorrows, because he shall give his beloved sleep.

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

For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

For I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

There is no peace for the wicked, said the LORD.

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the guards before the door that kept the prison.

The fear of the LORD is unto life, and he that has it shall live satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

And I will establish with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

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

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

And in that time I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heaven and with the serpents of the earth; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle of the earth and will cause them to sleep safely.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who sleep in Jesus will God also bring with him.

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 child shall shepherd them.

Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

leave thy gift there before the altar, and go; first restore friendship with thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shone in the prison, and he smote Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

The watchman said, The morning comes and then the night; if ye will enquire, enquire ye; return, and come.

But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely and shall rest from the fear of evil.

Therefore I commended joy because a man has no better thing 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 gives him under the sun.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart in the time that their grain and their wine multiplied.

The wolf and the lamb shall be fed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not afflict nor do evil in all my holy mountain, said the LORD.

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 I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others 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.