Sleep

Sleep is the rest God gives the body each night. The Lord gives His beloved sleep and keeps watch without slumbering, the love of sleep leads to poverty, and the death of believers is spoken of as falling asleep.

Sleep in peace

• Psalm 4:8
  I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
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• Psalm 3:5
  I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
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• Proverbs 3:24
  When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
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• Psalm 127:2
  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
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• Mark 4:38
  And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”
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Watched over in the night

• Psalm 121:3-4
  ³He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber. ⁴Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
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• Psalm 91:5
  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
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• Psalm 42:8
  Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
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• Psalm 63:6
  When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
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Sleeplessness

• Esther 6:1
  On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
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• Daniel 6:18
  Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
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• Ecclesiastes 5:12
  The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
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• Psalm 77:4
  Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
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The love of sleep

• Proverbs 6:9-11
  ⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? ¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, ¹¹So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
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• Proverbs 20:13
  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
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• Proverbs 19:15
  Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
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Death as sleep

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
  ¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
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• John 11:11-14
  ¹¹These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.” ¹²Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.” ¹³Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus. ¹⁴Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
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• Daniel 12:2
  And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
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See also

• Rest
• Anxiety
• Peace
• Laziness
• Death

Notes

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