30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”(A)

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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands.(A) And his commands are not burdensome,(B)

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33 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.

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33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.(A) In this world you will have trouble.(B) But take heart! I have overcome(C) the world.”

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

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13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.(A)

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And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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But he said to me, “My grace(A) is sufficient for you, for my power(B) is made perfect in weakness.(C)(D) Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight(E) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,(F) in persecutions,(G) in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(H)

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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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Freedom in Christ

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.(A) Stand firm,(B) then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.(C)

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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
    And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly(A) and to love mercy
    and to walk humbly[a](B) with your God.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:8 Or prudently

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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18 But if you are led by the Spirit,(A) you are not under the law.(B)

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Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

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who comforts us(A) in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ,(B) so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

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10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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10 Now then, why do you try to test God(A) by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke(B) that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?

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17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

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17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.(A)

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28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

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28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit(A) and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:

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17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

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17 Her ways are pleasant ways,
    and all her paths are peace.(A)

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