31 Bible Verses about Sleeping Peacefully

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

And my people shall dwell in a peaceful habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

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

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

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

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

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil animals 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, says the LORD, unto the wicked.

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 kept the prison.

The fear of the LORD leads to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

And I will make 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 sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever.

And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall 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 fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will abolish the bow and the sword and the battle from the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

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

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 fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.

Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

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

The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire you: return, come.

But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from the fear of evil.

Then I commended mirth, 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 in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine 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, says the LORD.

For you shall be in covenant with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

Behold, a son shall be born to you, 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.