Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

New American Standard Bible

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.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves.

International Standard Version

Place my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls,

A Conservative Version

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls.

American Standard Version

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

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls.

An Understandable Version

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.

Anderson New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.

Common New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Daniel Mace New Testament

take my yoke upon you, and learn to be meek like me, and of an humble temper: and ye shall enjoy tranquillity of mind.

Darby Translation

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;

Godbey New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; because I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.

Goodspeed New Testament

Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest,

John Wesley New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls.

Julia Smith Translation

Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.

King James 2000

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Modern King James verseion

Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek, and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Moffatt New Testament

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

Montgomery New Testament

"Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

NET Bible

Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

New Heart English Bible

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.

Noyes New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls.

Sawyer New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls;

The Emphasized Bible

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, - because, meek, am I and lowly, in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest to your souls.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly-minded, and 'you shall find rest for your souls';

Webster

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me: for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.

Weymouth New Testament

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Williams New Testament

Put on my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,

World English Bible

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Worrell New Testament

Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; because I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls;

Worsley New Testament

Take but my yoke upon you, and learn of me, (for I am meek and lowly in heart,) and ye shall find refreshment to your souls:

Youngs Literal Translation

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
αἴρω 
Airo 
take up, take away, take, away with, lift up, bear,
Usage: 52

my
μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

ζυγός 
Zugos 
Usage: 4

ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

you
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

and





and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

μανθάνω 
manthano 
Usage: 20

of
ἀπό 
Apo 
from, of, out of, for, off, by, at, in, since 9, on, not tr., .
Usage: 490

me
ἐμοῦ 
Emou 
me, my, mine
Usage: 36

for
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

I am
εἰμί 
Eimi 
I am , am, it is I , be, I was , have been, not tr
Usage: 72

πρᾴος 
Praos 
Usage: 0

ταπεινός 
Tapeinos 
Usage: 7

in heart
καρδία 
Kardia 
Usage: 116

ye shall find
εὑρίσκω 
heurisko 
find,
Usage: 130

ἀνάπαυσις 
Anapausis 
rest, rest 9
Usage: 2

ψυχή 
Psuche 
Usage: 62

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

Images Matthew 11:29

Prayers for Matthew 11:29

Context Readings

A Yoke That Is Easy

28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.


Cross References

Jeremiah 6:16

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.

John 13:15

I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.

1 John 2:6

He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

Philippians 2:5

Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

Zechariah 9:9

Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

Philippians 2:7-8

But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

Numbers 12:3

Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

Psalm 131:1

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.

Isaiah 42:1-4

See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

Matthew 7:24

Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

Matthew 11:27-28

All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

Matthew 12:19-20

His coming will not be with fighting or loud cries; and his voice will not be lifted up in the streets.

Matthew 17:5

While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.

Matthew 21:5

Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.

Matthew 28:20

Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

Luke 6:46-48

Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Luke 8:35

And they went out to see what had taken place, and they came to Jesus and saw the man out of whom the evil spirits had gone, seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, at the feet of Jesus; and fear came on them.

Luke 9:51-56

And it came about that when the days were near for him to be taken up, his face was turned to go to Jerusalem,

Luke 10:39-42

And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.

John 13:17

If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

John 14:21-24

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

John 15:10-14

If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

Acts 3:22-23

For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.

Acts 7:37

This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

2 Corinthians 10:5

Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

Ephesians 4:20-21

For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

1 Thessalonians 4:2

Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

Hebrews 4:3-11

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.

Hebrews 5:9

And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

1 Peter 2:21-23

This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:

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