Bible verses about Rest
Verses about the rest God gives to His people.
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:29For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Matthew 11:30And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
Genesis 2:2Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
Genesis 2:3I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Psalms 4:8Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
Psalms 116:7This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
Jeremiah 6:16There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Hebrews 4:9For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.
Hebrews 4:10Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:11for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
Jeremiah 31:25In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
Psalms 127:2And He said to them, “Come with Me privately to a solitary place, and let us rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.
Mark 6:31Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
Psalms 37:7Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
Psalms 62:5He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
Psalms 23:2but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
Exodus 20:10He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 91:1And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Exodus 33:14