Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”
Matthew 11:29 - New Revised Standard Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”
Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.
The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the neediest people shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”
Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than anyone else on the face of the earth.
While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”
“Tell the daughter of Zion, Look, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.
For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up a prophet for you from your own people as he raised me up.’
To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law) so that I might win those outside the law.
I myself, Paul, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!—
and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.
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.
and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,