Bible Verses About Bad Dreams
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bad dreams, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,631 votes, led by Psalms 4:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bad Dreams
Psalms 4:8279 votes
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Psalms 23:1-6279 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
1 John 4:1267 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Daniel 2:28231 votes
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh 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;
John 16:33191 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Proverbs 3:24163 votes
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Daniel 2:1134 votes
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
Matthew 27:19123 votes
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
1 John 1:9123 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 16:13116 votes
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Daniel 4:5108 votes
I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Genesis 41:1-7106 votes
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Job 7:14101 votes
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Titus 3:593 votes
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
John 14:682 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Revelation 21:1-2779 votes
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Hebrews 10:2676 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Daniel 7:172 votes
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Ecclesiastes 5:362 votes
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
John 1:162 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jeremiah 23:3260 votes
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
Genesis 40:5-859 votes
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
2 Timothy 1:755 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
1 John 5:1555 votes
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Matthew 5:3053 votes
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
What does the Bible say about bad dreams?
Readers most often cite Psalms 4:8 on the subject of bad dreams. Across 4,631 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 23:1-6, 1 John 4:1, Daniel 2:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.