Proverbs 3:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If you sit down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:30

And the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.

Job 11:19

You will lie down, and no one will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.

Psalm 112:8

Their hearts are steady; they will not be afraid; in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives sleep to his beloved.

Psalm 3:5

I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the Lord sustains me.

Psalm 3:6

I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.

Psalm 4:8

I will both lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety.

Psalm 91:5

You will not fear the terror of the night or the arrow that flies by day

Proverbs 1:33

but those who listen to me will be secure and will live at ease without dread of disaster.”

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord is life indeed; filled with it one rests secure and suffers no harm.

Proverbs 6:22

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of laborers, whether they eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not let them sleep.

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression; indeed, you shall not fear; and from terror; indeed, it shall not come near you.

Jeremiah 31:26

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

Ezekiel 34:15

I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 34:25

I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild animals from the land, so that they may live in the wild and sleep in the woods securely.

Ezekiel 34:27

The trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase. They shall be secure on their soil, and they shall know that I am the Lord when I break the bars of their yoke and save them from the hands of those who enslaved them.

Leviticus 26:6

And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword shall go through your land.

Acts 12:6

The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.