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100 Bible Verses about Early Rising

Mark 1:35 ESV / 301 helpful votes

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 226 helpful votes

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 194 helpful votes

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Proverbs 6:9-11 ESV / 184 helpful votes

How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

Psalm 119:147 ESV / 155 helpful votes

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words.

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 129 helpful votes

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Psalm 57:8 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

Psalm 108:2 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

Psalm 119:148 ESV / 85 helpful votes

My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.

Psalm 127:2 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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.

Job 1:5 ESV / 75 helpful votes

And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Romans 13:12 ESV / 70 helpful votes

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Exodus 8:20 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Isaiah 26:9 ESV / 68 helpful votes

My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Exodus 24:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Luke 1:78 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high

Genesis 19:27 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

John 8:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

Psalm 130:6 ESV / 48 helpful votes

My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

Exodus 9:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Proverbs 27:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.

Exodus 34:4 ESV / 35 helpful votes

So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.

Judges 21:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Mark 16:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.

Luke 21:38 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

Psalm 90:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Luke 24:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

Psalm 42:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

1 Samuel 15:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

Acts 5:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Joshua 6:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes

On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.

Isaiah 50:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

John 3:19-21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Ecclesiastes 11:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Psalm 121:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

Psalm 63:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Luke 1:79 ESV / 20 helpful votes

To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Isaiah 60:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

Matthew 28:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Psalm 55:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.

2 Kings 19:35 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Genesis 22:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

Psalm 59:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

1 Samuel 17:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.

1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

John 9:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

1 Samuel 1:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.

Exodus 16:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

John 20:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

John 1:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Joshua 3:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

Genesis 28:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Malachi 4:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Ecclesiastes 2:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:4-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 8 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.”

Psalm 57:7-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

Job 38:12-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.

Revelation 22:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

James 5:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Acts 26:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

John 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Mark 16:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Mark 16:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Exodus 14:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.

Revelation 22:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

Revelation 21:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.

Revelation 21:22-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.

2 Peter 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Acts 20:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.

Acts 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

John 21:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” ...

John 20:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

Luke 6:12-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:

Mark 16:1-2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.

Mark 15:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jeremiah 7:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,

Proverbs 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

Psalm 88:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you.

Exodus 20:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Galatians 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Acts 26:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me.

Acts 10:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.”

Acts 2:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

John 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Luke 24:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”

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