57 Bible Verses about Rest

For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God [did] from his own [works].

For we who have believed enter into rest, just as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'" And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Come to me, all [of you] who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

Yahweh gave them rest on every side, according to all that he had sworn to their ancestors, and nobody from all their enemies withstood them, for Yahweh had given all their enemies into their hand.

[On] six days work can be done, and on the seventh there will be for you a holy [day], a {Sabbath of complete rest}, for Yahweh; anyone doing work on it will be put to death.

But now Yahweh my God has given me rest all around me. There is no adversary, and there is no bad occurrence.

And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.

" 'Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed.

And you must not give him rest until he establishes, and until he {makes} Jerusalem {an object of praise} in the earth.

Six days you will work, and on the seventh day you will rest; in the [time of] plowing and in the [time of] harvest you will rest.

And you will have confidence because there is hope; and you will be well protected--{you will sleep in safety}.

But in the seventh year it shall be {a Sabbath of complete rest} for the land--a Sabbath for Yahweh; you must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard.

"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope [is] from him.

And he said, "My presence will go, and I will give you rest."

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; your strength shall be in quietness and in trust." But you were not willing,

Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

Return, O my soul, to your repose, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

In peace I will lie down and sleep {at once}, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.

For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.

For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you.

in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

And he said to them, "You yourselves come privately to an isolated place and rest for a short time." For those [who were] coming and going were many, and they did not even have time to eat.

I will give no sleep to my eyes, [no] slumber to my eyelids,

And he said to them, "This is what Yahweh has said. Tomorrow [is] a rest period, a holy Sabbath for Yahweh. Bake what you [want to] bake, and boil what you [want to] boil. Put aside all the surplus for yourselves for safekeeping until the morning."

It [is] {a Sabbath of complete rest} for you, and you shall deny yourselves on the ninth [day] of the month in the evening--from evening to evening you must observe your [extraordinary] Sabbath."

Thus says Yahweh: "[The] people of [the] survivors of the sword found grace in the desert; Israel going to find their rest."

"This [is] my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

[On] six days work can be done, and on the seventh {is a Sabbath of complete rest}, {a holy day} for Yahweh; anyone doing work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death.

All of the earth rests [and] is quiet; they break forth [into] singing.

Arise and go, for this [is] no resting place, on account of uncleanness [that] destroys with painful destruction.

to whom he has said, "This [is] rest; give rest to the weary; and this [is] repose"; yet they were not willing to hear.

There [the] wicked cease from troubling, and there [the] {weary} are at rest;

"Whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find [it]. It says, 'I will return to my house from which I came out.'

For if Joshua had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these [things].

And she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today."

Thus says Yahweh: "Heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] the footstool for my feet. Where [is] this house that you would build for me? And where [is] this resting place for me?

[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the {land} of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness.

I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come."

So I say, "{Oh, that} I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest,

" '[For] six days work is to be done, and on the seventh day [shall be] {a Sabbath of complete rest}, a holy assembly; you shall not do any work; it [shall be] a Sabbath for Yahweh in all your dwellings.

And they answered the angel of Yahweh who was standing between the myrtle shrubs, and they said, "We have patrolled the earth, and look, all the earth {is dwelling in peace}."

Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days.

Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.

until Yahweh gives rest to your families as well as to you. They will take possession of the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to them. Then you will return to your own land and take possession of it, [the land] that Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan {to the east}."

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

But the seventh you will let it rest and leave it fallow, and the poor of your people will eat, and their remainder the animals of the field will eat. You will do likewise for your vineyard and for your olive trees.