Matthew 11:28
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28 (A)Come to (B)me, all who labor and are (C)heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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Matthew 11:29
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29 Take my yoke upon you, and (A)learn from me, for I am (B)gentle and lowly in heart, and (C)you will find rest for your souls.
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John 7:37
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Rivers of Living Water
37 (A)On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, (B)“If anyone thirsts, let him (C)come to me and drink.
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John 6:37
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37 (A)All that (B)the Father gives me will come to me, and (C)whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
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Isaiah 55:1-3
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The Compassion of the Lord
55 (A)“Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
(B)come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 (C)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
(D)hear, that your soul may live;
(E)and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
(F)my steadfast, sure love for (G)David.
Micah 6:6-8
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What Does the Lord Require?
6 (A)“With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before (B)God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 (C)Will the Lord be pleased with[a] thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
(D)Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and (E)what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,[b]
and to (F)walk humbly with your God?
Revelation 22:17
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17 The Spirit and (A)the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And (B)let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the (C)water of life without price.
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Isaiah 48:17-18
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17 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18 (A)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
(B)Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
Isaiah 66:2
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2 (A)All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
(B)But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.
Jeremiah 6:16
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16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for (A)the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
(B)and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Isaiah 45:22-25
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22 “Turn to me and be saved,
(A)all the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 (B)By myself I have sworn;
from my mouth has gone out in (C)righteousness
a word that shall not return:
(D)‘To me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear allegiance.’[a]
24 (E)“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
are righteousness and (F)strength;
to him shall come and be ashamed
(G)all who were incensed against him.
25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
shall be justified and shall glory.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:23 Septuagint every tongue shall confess to God
Matthew 23:4
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4 (A)They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,[a] and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
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- Matthew 23:4 Some manuscripts omit hard to bear
Psalm 116:7
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Isaiah 28:12
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12 to whom he has said,
(A)“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
Hebrews 4:1
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4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem (A)to have failed to reach it.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
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22 What has a man from (A)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For (B)all his days are full of sorrow, and his (C)work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
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Isaiah 53:2-3
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2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
(A)and like a root out of dry ground;
(B)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 (C)He was despised and rejected[a] by men,
a man of sorrows[b] and acquainted with[c] grief;[d]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[e]
he was despised, and (D)we esteemed him not.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
- Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
- Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
- Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
- Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us
Isaiah 11:10
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10 In that day (A)the root of (B)Jesse, who shall stand as (C)a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
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Psalm 38:4
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4 For my (A)iniquities have gone over my head;
like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
2 Thessalonians 1:7
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7 and to grant (A)relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when (B)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven (C)with his mighty angels
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Ecclesiastes 1:8
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8 All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
(A)the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
Isaiah 61:3
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3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
(A)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
(B)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
(C)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, (D)that he may be glorified.[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:3 Or that he may display his beauty
Romans 7:22-25
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22 For (A)I delight in the law of God, (B)in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members (C)another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from (D)this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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Genesis 3:17-19
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17 And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
(A)of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
(C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
(D)for you are dust,
and (E)to dust you shall return.”
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