What Does the Bible Say About Naps?

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 15:1-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

Ecclesiastes 5:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Romans 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

2 Corinthians 11:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

2 Corinthians 6:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

Romans 10:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Luke 22:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Mark 13:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.

Jonah 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

Isaiah 56:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Ecclesiastes 8:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 24:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 23:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 19:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 10:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

Proverbs 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

Proverbs 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Psalm 132:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

Psalm 68:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.

Psalm 13:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Psalm 7:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

Psalm 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.

Deuteronomy 24:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

Leviticus 14:47 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Isaiah 5:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistband is loose, not a sandal strap broken;

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ...

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 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. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ...

Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, ...

Psalm 44:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. ...

Esther 9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ...

52 Bible Verses about Naps

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:1-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 5:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 11:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 6:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 22:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 13:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jonah 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 56:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 8:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 132:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 68:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 13:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 24:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 14:47 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 5:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 44:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Esther 9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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