36 Bible Verses about Rest, Spiritual

You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal. Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.read more.
But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me. Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered. And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.read more.
I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.) I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.

The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 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 my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

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

Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.

My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation. He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High; Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope. He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.read more.
You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation. You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day, Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high. You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers. Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place; No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent. For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go. In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you. Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.

May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.

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. Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

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

Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.

Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

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.

And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever. And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.

And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

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.

A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away. For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.

But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste. There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.

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.