Getting Rest
9 passages
- Mark 6:31
And He said to them, “Come with Me privately to a solitary place, and let us rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.
Read it in context - Proverbs 3:24
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
Read it in context - Hebrews 4:9–11
9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. 11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
Read it in context - Matthew 11:28–30
28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Read it in context - Psalm 4:8
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Read it in context - Psalm 23:2
He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
Read it in context - Mark 2:27
Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Read it in context - Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
Read it in context - Proverbs 23:4–5
4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. 5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
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