Verse 29

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

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  • 1 John 2:6 : 6 Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.
  • Phil 2:7-8 : 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of humanity. And being found in appearance as a man, 8 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 This is what the Lord says: 'Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
  • John 13:15 : 15 For I have given you an example, so that you also should do just as I have done for you.
  • Phil 2:5 : 5 Have the same mindset in yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:
  • 1 Pet 2:21-23 : 21 To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in His footsteps. 22 He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth. 23 When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.
  • 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I, Paul, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—who is humble when present among you but bold when absent.
  • John 15:10-14 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 12 This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout aloud, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Matt 7:24 : 24 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
  • Heb 4:3-9 : 3 For we who have believed are entering that rest, just as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,'" even though His works have been finished since the foundation of the world. 4 For somewhere He has said this about the seventh day: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works." 5 And again, in the same passage, "They shall not enter My rest." 6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had the good news proclaimed to them did not enter because of disobedience, 7 He again appoints a certain day—'Today'—saying through David after such a long time, as it was previously stated: "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts." 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9 Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has also rested from his own works, just as God did from His. 11 Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same example of disobedience.
  • Matt 21:5 : 5 'Say to the daughter of Zion: See, your King is coming to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.'
  • Num 12:3 : 3 Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 A song of ascents. LORD, my heart is not proud, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with matters too great or too wonderful for me.
  • Isa 42:1-4 : 1 Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen one, in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit upon him, and he will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He will not cry out or raise his voice, nor make his voice heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully bring forth justice. 4 He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice on the earth, and the coastlands wait for his law.
  • John 13:17 : 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
  • John 14:21-24 : 21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, 'Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?' 23 Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.' 24 The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.
  • Acts 3:22-23 : 22 Moses said: 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you. 23 And it will be that every person who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'
  • Acts 7:37 : 37 This is the same Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 'teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'
  • Luke 6:46-48 : 46 Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say? 47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. 48 They are like a person building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
  • Luke 8:35 : 35 The people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man who had been possessed by demons sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
  • Luke 9:51-56 : 51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face firmly to go to Jerusalem. 52 He sent messengers ahead of him, and they went into a Samaritan village to prepare for his arrival. 53 But the people did not welcome him because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 54 When James and John, his disciples, saw this, they said, 'Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them, as Elijah did?' 55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them. 56 Then they went on to another village.
  • Luke 10:39-42 : 39 She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and listened to His word. 40 But Martha was distracted by much serving. So she came to Him and asked, 'Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, therefore, to help me.' 41 The Lord answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.' 42 'But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.'
  • Matt 11:27-28 : 27 All things have been committed to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • Matt 12:19-20 : 19 He will not quarrel or cry out, nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets. 20 A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, until He leads justice to victory.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!'
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 and every lofty thing that rises up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to obey Christ.
  • Eph 4:20-21 : 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.
  • 1 Thess 4:2 : 2 For you know the commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 9:21 : 21 To those without the law, I became like one without the law (not being without God’s law but under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.