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30 Bible Verse About Sleeping Too Much

  1. Proverbs 24:33-34:

    “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.”

  2. Proverbs 6:9-11:

    “How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.”

  3. Proverbs 20:13:

    “Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.”

  4. Proverbs 10:5:

    “Whoever gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.”

  5. Proverbs 19:15:

    “Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.”

  6. Proverbs 26:14:

    “As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.”

  7. Proverbs 6:9:

    “How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?”

  8. Ephesians 5:14:

    “This is why it is said: ‘Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.’”

  9. Romans 13:11:

    “And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.”

  10. 1 Thessalonians 5:6:

    “So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.”

  11. Matthew 26:40-41:

    “Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. ‘Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?’ he asked Peter. ‘Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.’”

  12. Proverbs 23:21:

    “For drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.”

  13. 1 Corinthians 15:34:

    “Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.”

  14. Romans 13:12:

    “The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”

  15. Proverbs 12:24:

    “Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.”

  16. Proverbs 13:4:

    “A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.”

  17. Proverbs 15:19:

    “The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.”

  18. Proverbs 19:24:

    “The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!”

  19. Matthew 25:5:

    “The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.”

  20. Proverbs 18:9:

    “One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.”

  21. Proverbs 24:30-34:

    “I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.”

  22. Matthew 26:43:

    “When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy.”

  23. Proverbs 26:15:

    “A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.”

  24. 1 Corinthians 11:30:

    “That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.”

  25. Proverbs 24:16:

    “For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.”

  26. Jonah 1:5:

    “All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.”

  27. Psalm 132:4:

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

  28. Matthew 26:45:

    “Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, ‘Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.’”

  29. Proverbs 26:16:

    “A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.”

  30. 1 Thessalonians 5:7:

    “For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.”