getting rest
What does the Bible say about getting rest? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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2It is in vain that you rise before daylight, that you rise up after you have sat down, you who chew the bread of sorrow. Whereas, to his beloved, he will give sleep.
31And he said to them, “Go out alone, into a deserted place, and rest for a little while.” For there were so many who were coming and going, that they did not even have time to eat.
24When you slumber, you shall not fear. When you rest, your sleep also will be sweet.
9And so, there remains a Sabbath of rest for the people of God. 10For whoever has entered into his rest, the same has also rested from his works, just as God did from his. 11Therefore, let us hasten to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of unbelief.
8Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath. 9For six days, you will work and accomplish all your tasks. 10But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it: you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, your beast and the newcomer who is within your gates. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all the things that are in them, and so he rested on the seventh day. For this reason, the Lord has blessed the day of the Sabbath and sanctified it.
28Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”
10For you, O Lord, have established me singularly in hope.
26Yes, Father, for this was pleasing before you. 27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him. 28Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”
2He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment.
27And he said to them: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
12There is even another most burdensome infirmity, which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept to the harm of the owner.