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100 Bible Verses about Waking Up

Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 257 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.”

Proverbs 6:9-11 ESV / 179 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 57:8 ESV / 135 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 50:4 ESV / 118 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.

Romans 13:11 ESV / 114 helpful votes

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 102 helpful votes

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

Mark 1:35 ESV / 87 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 20:13 ESV / 86 helpful votes

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

Psalm 108:2 ESV / 81 helpful votes

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

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 79 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.

Mark 13:35-37 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”

Psalm 17:15 ESV / 65 helpful votes

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Jonah 1:6 ESV / 63 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 60:1 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

Psalm 139:18 ESV / 57 helpful votes

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Song of Solomon 2:10 ESV / 53 helpful votes

My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,

Isaiah 26:19 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Psalm 90:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes

So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

Psalm 3:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Pray without ceasing,

John 11:11-14 ESV / 22 helpful votes

After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

1 Thessalonians 5:5-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 15:34 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Luke 22:69 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

1 Thessalonians 5:5-6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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.

Jeremiah 31:26 ESV / 14 helpful votes

At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

Acts 12:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

Luke 9:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.

Isaiah 51:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering.

John 3:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Luke 24:36 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Proverbs 24:33-34 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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.

Genesis 28:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”

Romans 8:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Romans 13:11-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 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.

Luke 10:25-28 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

Luke 9:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

Mark 13:36 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 9 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.

Isaiah 52:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Song of Solomon 5:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”

Proverbs 6:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

Job 14:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

So a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

Hebrews 7:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

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!

Acts 11:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

2 Kings 19:1-37 ESV / 7 helpful votes

As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz. They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.” When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, ...

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 7 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. ...

Hebrews 7:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

Romans 2:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

Acts 9:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”

Acts 2:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 6 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. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Matthew 20:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”

Proverbs 26:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:9-10 ESV / 6 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,

Psalm 2:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 13:12 ESV / 5 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.

Luke 21:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Mark 8:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Matthew 8:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

1 John 5:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

John 20:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

John 14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 12:49 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.

John 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”

John 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.

Luke 24:36-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!” But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. ...

Luke 20:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up

Luke 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

Luke 3:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Proverbs 19:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:22 ESV / 4 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 139:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 4 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 119:147 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:147-148 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.

Job 38:12-13 ESV / 4 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?

Job 8:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.

Job 7:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Visit him every morning and test him every moment?

Job 7:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

1 Chronicles 22:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’

2 Samuel 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

2 Samuel 8:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.

2 Samuel 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

2 Samuel 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

Exodus 4:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son,

Genesis 9:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

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