Sleeplessness

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet. — read the full passage →

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

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

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

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. — read the full passage →

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. — read the full passage →

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

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed, — read the full passage →

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. — read the full passage →

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside. — read the full passage →

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting 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, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak. — read the full passage →

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

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly 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 →

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

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

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

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

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live 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 you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

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

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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

But let us, since we belong to 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, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best 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 may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, — read the full passage →

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

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

For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

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

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you; — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is 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 don’t faint. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 groans and travails in pain together until now.

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, 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.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

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