And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Matthew 11:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. [Jer. 6:16.] American Standard Version (1901) Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Common English Bible Put on my yoke, and learn from me. I’m gentle and humble. And you will find rest for yourselves. Catholic Public Domain Version Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls. |
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.
to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.
While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of an ass.
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Every one therefore which heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, which built his house upon the rock:
And they went out to see what had come to pass; and they came to Jesus, and found the man, from whom the devils were gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and they were afraid.
For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me.
to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.
Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.