Matthew 11:28
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28 Come to (A)Me, all you who labor and are 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 (A)and learn from Me, for I am [a]gentle and (B)lowly in heart, (C)and you will find rest for your souls.
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- Matthew 11:29 meek
John 7:37
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The Promise of the Holy Spirit
37 (A)On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, (B)“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
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John 6:37
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37 (A)All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and (B)the one who comes to Me I will [a]by no means cast out.
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- John 6:37 certainly not
Isaiah 55:1-3
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An Invitation to Abundant Life
55 “Ho! (A)Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
(B)Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
2 Why do you [a]spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 Incline your ear, and (C)come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
(D)And I will make an everlasting covenant with you—
The (E)sure mercies of David.
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- Isaiah 55:2 Lit. weigh out silver
Galatians 5:1
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Christian Liberty
5 (A)Stand[a] fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a (B)yoke of bondage.
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- Galatians 5:1 NU For freedom Christ has made us free; stand fast therefore, and
Revelation 22:17
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17 And the Spirit and (A)the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” (B)And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
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Isaiah 48:17-18
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17 Thus says (A)the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
(B)Who leads you by the way you should go.
18 (C)Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
(D)Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Jeremiah 6:16
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16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the (A)old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find (B)rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Psalm 116:7
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Isaiah 28:12
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12 To whom He said, “This is the (A)rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.
Micah 6:6-8
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6 With what shall I come before the Lord,
And bow myself before the High God?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
With calves a year old?
7 (A)Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand (B)rivers of oil?
(C)Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
[a]The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has (D)shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But (E)to do justly,
To love [b]mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?
Isaiah 66:2
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2 For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the Lord.
(A)“But on this one will I look:
(B)On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.
Matthew 23:4
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4 (A)For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
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Isaiah 45:22-25
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22 “Look to Me, and be saved,
(A)All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 (B)I have sworn by Myself;
The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness,
And shall not return,
That to Me every (C)knee shall bow,
(D)Every tongue shall take an oath.
24 He shall say,
[a]‘Surely in the Lord I have (E)righteousness and strength.
To Him men shall come,
And (F)all shall be ashamed
Who are incensed against Him.
25 (G)In the Lord all the descendants of Israel
Shall be justified, and (H)shall glory.’ ”
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- Isaiah 45:24 Or Only in the Lord are all righteousness and strength
Hebrews 4:1
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The Promise of Rest
4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, (A)let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
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22 (A)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? 23 For all his days are (B)sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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Psalm 38:4
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4 For my 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 give you who are troubled (A)rest with us when (B)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels,
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Isaiah 11:10
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10 “And(A) in that day (B)there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a (C)banner to the people;
For the (D)Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”
Psalm 94:13
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13 That You may give him [a]rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
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- Psalm 94:13 relief
Romans 7:22-25
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22 For I (A)delight in the law of God according to (B)the inward man. 23 But (C)I see another law in (D)my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me (E)from this body of death? 25 (F)I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
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Isaiah 53:2-3
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2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no [a]form or [b]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no [c]beauty that we should desire Him.
3 (A)He is despised and [d]rejected by men,
A Man of [e]sorrows and (B)acquainted with [f]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and (C)we did not esteem Him.
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- Isaiah 53:2 Stately form
- Isaiah 53:2 splendor
- Isaiah 53:2 Lit. appearance
- Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
- Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
- Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness
Ecclesiastes 1:8
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8 All things are [a]full of labor;
Man cannot express it.
(A)The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.
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- Ecclesiastes 1:8 wearisome
Isaiah 61:3
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3 To [a]console those who mourn in Zion,
(A)To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
(B)The planting of the Lord, (C)that He may be glorified.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:3 Lit. appoint
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