Sleeplessness

In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. — read the full passage →

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion: — read the full passage →

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. — read the full passage →

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, — read the full passage →

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion: — read the full passage →

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; Forso he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name’s sake, and hast not grown weary.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me. — read the full passage →

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.

but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:

I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;

giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed; — read the full passage →

that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me. — read the full passage →

For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, butwe wereafflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. — read the full passage →

And when they had prayed, the place was shaken wherein they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed.

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for Jehovah sustaineth me.

And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, — read the full passage →

These all with one accord continued stedfastly in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.

All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as alsoit iswith you; — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not: — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them;

And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Nowthere wasa certain man in Cæsarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, — read the full passage →

who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit:

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →