18 Bible Verses about God Giving Rest

And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest.

And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

Praise be to the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, as he gave them his word to do; every word of all his oath, which he gave by the hand of Moses his servant, has come true.

Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.

Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God. For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.

Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.

For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever;