100 Bible Verses about Waking Up

Here are 100 Bible verses about waking up, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Ephesians 5:14 KJV

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

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Proverbs 6:9-11 KJV

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

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Psalm 57:8 KJV

⁸ Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

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Isaiah 50:4 KJV

⁴ The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

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Romans 13:11 KJV

¹¹ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

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Psalm 5:3 KJV

³ My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

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Mark 1:35 KJV

³⁵ And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

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Proverbs 20:13 KJV

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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Psalm 108:2 KJV

² Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

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Psalm 143:8 KJV

⁸ Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

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Mark 13:35-37 KJV

³⁵ Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: ³⁶ Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. ³⁷ And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

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Psalm 17:15 KJV

¹⁵ As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

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Jonah 1:6 KJV

⁶ So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

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Isaiah 60:1 KJV

¹ Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

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Psalm 139:18 KJV

¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

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Song of Solomon 2:10 KJV

¹⁰ My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

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Isaiah 26:19 KJV

¹⁹ Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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Proverbs 31:15 KJV

¹⁵ She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

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Psalm 90:14 KJV

¹⁴ O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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1 Thessalonians 5:6 KJV

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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Psalm 3:5 KJV

⁵ I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.

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1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

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John 11:11-14 KJV

¹¹ These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. ¹² Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. ¹³ Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. ¹⁴ Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

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Luke 22:69 KJV

⁶⁹ Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.

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1 Thessalonians 5:5-8 KJV

⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and …

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1 Corinthians 15:34 KJV

³⁴ Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

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John 3:2 KJV

² The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

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Luke 24:36 KJV

³⁶ And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

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1 Thessalonians 5:5-6 KJV

⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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Acts 12:4 KJV

⁴ And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

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Luke 9:32 KJV

³² But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

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Jeremiah 31:26 KJV

²⁶ Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

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Isaiah 51:17 KJV

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

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Song of Solomon 2:7 KJV

⁷ I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

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Romans 8:14 KJV

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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Luke 10:25-28 KJV

²⁵ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? ²⁶ He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? ²⁷ And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. …

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Luke 9:20 KJV

²⁰ He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

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Proverbs 24:33-34 KJV

³³ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ³⁴ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

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Genesis 28:16 KJV

¹⁶ And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

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Hebrews 7:1 KJV

¹ For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

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Romans 13:11-12 KJV

¹¹ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. ¹² The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

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Mark 13:36 KJV

³⁶ Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

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Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV

²² It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. ²³ They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

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Isaiah 52:1 KJV

¹ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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Song of Solomon 5:2 KJV

² I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

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Proverbs 6:4 KJV

⁴ Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

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Job 14:12 KJV

¹² So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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Hebrews 7:3 KJV

³ Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

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Romans 2:16 KJV

¹⁶ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

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Acts 11:26 KJV

²⁶ And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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Acts 9:20 KJV

²⁰ And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

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Acts 2:22 KJV

²² Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Matthew 20:19 KJV

¹⁹ And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

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Psalm 57:7-8 KJV

⁷ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. ⁸ Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

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Psalm 2:7 KJV

⁷ I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

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2 Kings 19:1-37 KJV

¹ And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. ² And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. ³ And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, …

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2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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Matthew 8:20 KJV

²⁰ And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

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Genesis 1:1-31 KJV

¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. …

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1 John 5:19 KJV

¹⁹ And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

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Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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Romans 10:9 KJV

⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

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John 20:17 KJV

¹⁷ Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

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John 14:9 KJV

⁹ Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

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John 12:49 KJV

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

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Luke 24:36-41 KJV

³⁶ And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. ³⁷ But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. ³⁸ And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit …

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Luke 20:1 KJV

¹ And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,

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Luke 11:30 KJV

³⁰ For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

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Luke 3:38 KJV

³⁸ Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

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Proverbs 6:9-10 KJV

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

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2 Samuel 7:14 KJV

¹⁴ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

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Hebrews 5:7 KJV

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

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2 Timothy 2:8 KJV

⁸ Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

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1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 KJV

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

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Romans 13:12 KJV

¹² The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

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Acts 10:38 KJV

³⁸ How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

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John 8:14 KJV

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

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John 6:14 KJV

¹⁴ Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

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John 5:31 KJV

³¹ If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

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Luke 21:36 KJV

³⁶ Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

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Luke 7:16 KJV

¹⁶ And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

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Luke 6:31 KJV

³¹ And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

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Luke 4:41 KJV

⁴¹ And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

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Luke 1:2-3 KJV

² Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; ³ It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

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Mark 16:9-20 KJV

⁹ Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. ¹⁰ And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. ¹¹ And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. ¹² After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, …

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Mark 14:26 KJV

²⁶ And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

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Mark 8:35 KJV

³⁵ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

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Mark 1:1 KJV

¹ The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

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Matthew 27:55-56 KJV

⁵⁵ And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: ⁵⁶ Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.

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Matthew 21:11 KJV

¹¹ And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

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Matthew 19:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? ¹⁷ And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

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Matthew 17:9 KJV

⁹ And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

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Matthew 12:40 KJV

⁴⁰ For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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Matthew 9:9 KJV

⁹ And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

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Matthew 5:48 KJV

⁴⁸ Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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Matthew 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

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Jeremiah 31:9 KJV

⁹ They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

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Isaiah 42:8 KJV

⁸ I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

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Isaiah 37:1-38 KJV

¹ And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. ² And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. ³ And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, …

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