Getting Rest

and he said to them, `Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little,' for those coming and those going were many, and not even to eat had they opportunity,

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee. — read the full passage →

And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass--he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields--and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears, — read the full passage →

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

and they went away to a desert place, in the boat, by themselves.

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

and lo, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves, but he was sleeping,

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →

and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed--even as they.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia; — read the full passage →

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh <FI>day<Fi> thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →

and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'