Best 25 Bible Verses About Naps and Sleeping

Update on February 28, 2020 by Pastor Jack Wellman

Sleeping is referred to several times throughout the Bible. It’s mentioned as a time of rest during the night to recover energy for the next day. In this context, the Bible mentions trusting in God to have peaceful sleep. If we are troubled by worries preventing us from sleeping, we can cast our anxieties upon God to remedy these concerns. Also, sleeping and napping relates to the occurrence of dreams that biblical figures would experience, usually receiving a message from God in a vision. Here are our best 25 Bible verses about naps and sleeping!

I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.

- Psalm 3:4-5

I will not enter my house or get into my bed, I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.

- Psalm 132:3-5

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

- Psalm 121:4

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

- Psalm 127:2

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

- Matthew 6:34

“I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

- Ezekiel 34:25

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

- Colossians 3:15

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

- 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

- Psalm 116:7

If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

- Proverbs 3:24

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

- Isaiah 53:4

So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

- Genesis 2:3

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

- Psalm 4:8

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

- 1 Peter 5:6-7

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You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

- Isaiah 26:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

- Philippians 4:6-7