Matthew 11:29

A Yoke That Is Easy

²⁸ Come to me, all of you who are overworked and overburdened and I will give you rest [i.e., spiritual refreshment]. ²⁹ Accept my reins [on your life], and learn about me, because I am gentle and humble, and [in my service] you will experience rest in your spirits. ³⁰ For my reins [on your life] are easy [to respond to] and the burden I place [on you] is light."

Gentle and Lowly in Heart

Lowly in Heart

Put on

Take My Yoke

Humble In Heart

Meek And Lowly In Heart

John 13:15

For I have set an example for you, so that you should do as I have done for you.

1 John 2:6

The person who claims he is continuing to live in [fellowship with] Jesus should also live the way He did.

Philippians 2:5

You should think about things the way Christ Jesus did.

Philippians 2:7-8

Instead, He gave up what He had and took on the form [i.e., the nature] of a slave, becoming like a man, [and even] His appearance was found to be like a man's.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul, who am humble [when speaking] face to face with you, but bold when I am away from you, urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ [Note: This means either Paul was imitating Christ's behavior or that the Corinthians were to do so]:

Matthew 7:24

"Every person therefore, who hears these words of mine and obeys them will be like the sensible person who built his house on a [foundation of] rock.

Matthew 11:27-28

"All things have been entrusted to me by my Father and no one [truly] knows the Son except the Father. And neither does anyone [truly] know the Father except the Son and that person to whom the Son wants to reveal Him.

Matthew 12:19-20

He will not be contentious nor shout out [loudly]. Neither will anyone hear His voice [raised] in the streets.

Matthew 17:5

While he was still talking, suddenly a bright cloud engulfed them. Just then, a voice spoke out of the cloud, saying, "This is my dearly loved Son, who is very pleasing to me; listen to Him."

Matthew 21:5

[Zech. 9:9], 'You should tell the daughter of Zion [i.e., the people of Jerusalem], look, your King is coming to you. He is gentle and [will be] riding on a donkey, [even] on a colt, the offspring of the donkey.'"

Matthew 28:20

[Then] go on teaching them [i.e., these new converts] to obey everything I have commanded you and my presence will be with you always, even to the end of the age.

Luke 6:46-48

And why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and [yet] not obey what I tell you to do?

Luke 8:35

People went out to see [i.e., to find out] what had happened. And [when] they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the evil spirits had been driven out sitting down at Jesus' feet with his clothes on and perfectly sane, they were afraid.

Luke 9:51-56

And it happened when the time came for Jesus to be taken up [to heaven] that He firmly determined to go to Jerusalem.

Luke 10:39-42

And she had a sister named Mary who was also sitting at the Lord's feet, listening to what He said.

John 13:17

If you know these things, you will be happy if you practice them.

John 14:21-24

The person who knows [what] my commandments [are] and obeys them is the one who [truly] loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.

John 15:10-14

If you obey my commandments, [then] you will continue receiving my love; just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and [so] continue receiving His love.

Acts 3:22-23

Moses [expressed it when he] said [Deut. 18:15], 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers; He will be like me [in some ways] and you must all pay attention to Him in everything He says to you.'

Acts 7:37

"This is the Moses who had said to the Israelites [Deut. 18:15], 'God will raise up a prophet from among your countrymen who will be like me [in some ways].'

1 Corinthians 9:21

I [also] behaved like a person without [obligation to observe] the law [i.e., a Gentile] in front of those who are not obligated to it, although I was not [really] without obligation to God's law; but was under [obligation to] Christ's law. I did this to win those who are without [obligation to observe] the law [i.e., Gentiles].

2 Corinthians 10:5

We overthrow [vain] reasonings and every lofty idea raised against the knowledge of God [i.e., as revealed through the Gospel], and take captive [our] every thought to [make it] obey Christ.

Ephesians 4:20-21

But you people did not learn Christ that way [i.e., the above described life is not compatible with a commitment to Christ].

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For you know [i.e., are aware of] the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

He will inflict punishment on those people who do not know God [as Savior], and on those who do not obey the Gospel message of our Lord Jesus.

Hebrews 4:3-11

Now we who have believed [will someday] enter that rest, even as God has said [Psa. 95:11], "So, I vowed in my anger, 'They will not enter a state of rest with me,'" although God's works were completed since the creation of the world.

Hebrews 5:9

and after becoming perfectly [qualified], He became the source of never ending salvation to all those who obey Him.

1 Peter 2:21-23

[After all], this is what you were called to do, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in His steps.