31 Bible Verses about Sleeping Peacefully

In peace I will lie down and sleep {at once}, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.

If you sit down, you will not panic, and [if] you lie down, then your sleep shall be sweet.

I lay down and slept; I woke up because Yahweh sustains me.

And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.

For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then {I would be at rest}

[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.

At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.

The sleep of the laborer [is] pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest.

And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be {anybody who makes you afraid}, and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and {no sword shall pass through your land}.

he enters [into] peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him.

"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

Now when Herod was about to bring him [out], on that [very] night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.

Fear of Yahweh [leads] to life; he who is filled [with it] will rest--he will not suffer harm.

And I will make them a covenant of peace, and I will put an end to wild animals from the land, and they will dwell in the desert {safely}, and they will sleep in the forest.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever.

And [as for] you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the animals of the field, with the birds of the heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground; [the] bow, [the] sword, and [the] war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose [again], thus also God will bring those who have fallen asleep through Jesus together with him.

And a wolf shall {stay} with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together {as a small boy leads} them.

Then you will walk in the confidence of your ways, and your foot will not stumble.

leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood near [him], and a light shone in the prison cell. And striking Peter's side, he woke him up, saying, "Get up {quickly}!" And his chains fell off of [his] hands.

[The] watchman says, "Morning comes, and also [the] night. If you will inquire, inquire; {come back again}."

Whoever listens to me will dwell in security and rest securely from dread and disaster."

So I recommend enjoyment. For there [is] nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun.

You have put gladness in my heart more than {when} their grain and their wine abound.

[The] wolf and [the] lamb shall feed like one, and [the] lion shall eat straw like the ox, but dust [shall be] [the] serpent's food. They shall do no evil, and they shall not destroy on all {my holy mountain}," says Yahweh.

For your covenant [will be] with the stones of the field, and the wild animals of the field will be at peace with you.

Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve as also the rest, who have no hope.

Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days.