Sleeplessness

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.

If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep. — read the full passage →

My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness, — read the full passage →

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, — read the full passage →

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness, — read the full passage →

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

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. --A Psalm of Asaph. My voice <FI>is<Fi> to God, and I cry, my voice <FI>is<Fi> to God, And He hath given ear unto me. — read the full passage →

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets, and He hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar that which <FI>is<Fi> to be in the latter end of the days. `Thy dream and the visions of thy head on thy bed are these:

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. --A Psalm of Asaph. My voice <FI>is<Fi> to God, and I cry, my voice <FI>is<Fi> to God, And He hath given ear unto me. — read the full passage →

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed, — read the full passage →

that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me: — read the full passage →

for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without <FI>are<Fi> fightings, within--fears; — read the full passage →

And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

I--I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

And it cometh to pass, after the death of Saul, that David hath returned from smiting the Amalekite, and David dwelleth in Ziklag two days, — read the full passage →

I have been <FI>thus<Fi> : in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

but--which becometh women professing godly piety--through good works.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

great <FI>is<Fi> my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not. — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.

Sweet <FI>is<Fi> the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches--I meditate on Thee.

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

And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

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

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

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

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

and we, being of the day--let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet--a hope of salvation,

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God; — read the full passage →

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest, — read the full passage →

these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

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

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests.

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not <FI>some<Fi> to stumble.

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

we--we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you, — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

And working together also we call upon <FI>you<Fi> that ye receive not in vain the grace of God-- — read the full passage →

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens, — read the full passage →

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife--because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome--he came to them,

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent <FI>them<Fi> away.

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

who having come down did pray concerning them, that they may receive the Holy Spirit, --

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth, — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, — read the full passage →