Parallel Verses

An Understandable Version

For my reins [on your life] are easy [to respond to] and the burden I place [on you] is light."

New American Standard Bible

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

King James Version

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Holman Bible

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

International Standard Version

because my yoke is pleasant, and my burden is light."

A Conservative Version

For my yoke is befitting, and my burden is light.

American Standard Version

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Amplified

For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.”

Anderson New Testament

For my yoke is easy, and my bur den is light.

Bible in Basic English

For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

Common New Testament

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Daniel Mace New Testament

for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Darby Translation

for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Godbey New Testament

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Goodspeed New Testament

for the yoke I offer you is a kindly one, and the load I ask you to bear is light."

John Wesley New Testament

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Julia Smith Translation

For my yoke is useful, and my load is light.

King James 2000

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For my yoke [is] easy to carry and my burden is light."

Modern King James verseion

For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Moffatt New Testament

my yoke is kindly and my burden light."

Montgomery New Testament

"For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

NET Bible

For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry."

New Heart English Bible

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Noyes New Testament

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Sawyer New Testament

for my yoke is easy, and my burden light.

The Emphasized Bible

For, my yoke, is easy, and, my burden, light.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Webster

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Weymouth New Testament

For it is good to bear my yoke, and my burden is light."

Williams New Testament

for the yoke I offer is easy to wear, and the load I ask is light to bear

World English Bible

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Worrell New Testament

for My yoke is easy, and My burden light."

Worsley New Testament

for my yoke is easy, and my burthen is light.

Youngs Literal Translation

for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

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

ζυγός 
Zugos 
Usage: 4

is easy
χρηστός 
Chrestos 
Usage: 4

and

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

φορτίον 
Phortion 
Usage: 1

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

Devotionals

Devotionals about Matthew 11:30

References

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Hastings

Morish

Images Matthew 11:30

Prayers for Matthew 11:30

Context Readings

A Yoke That Is Easy

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."


Cross References

1 John 5:3

For this is [real evidence of] our love for God: [It is] obeying what He commands us to do. And obeying His commands does not cause us any grief [or, unpleasantness].

John 16:33

I have said these things to you so that you can have peace in [fellowship with] me. You will have trouble in the world, but cheer up, for I have conquered the world."

Acts 15:10

Why are you putting God on trial by trying to harness the disciples with a burden [i.e., compliance with the law of Moses], which neither our forefathers nor we could possibly bear?

Acts 15:28

For it was the judgment of the Holy Spirit, and we agreed, that no greater burden be placed on you people than the following necessary things:

2 Corinthians 1:4-5

He comforts us in all our troubles so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any [kind of] trouble, through the comfort we ourselves have received from Him.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our insignificant troubles [here on earth], which last only a short time, are producing for us an immeasurable, never ending [counter-] weight of splendor [i.e., in heaven. See Rom. 8:18].

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

But God said to me, "My unearned favor is enough for you, for my power is made complete in [your] weakness." Therefore, I will most gladly boast, so that the power of Christ can rest on me.

Galatians 5:1

Christ set us free [from condemnation under the law of Moses], so we could stay free! Remain where you are then, and do not get tangled up again in the enslaving harness [of the law of Moses].

Galatians 5:18

But, if you are led by [what] the Holy Spirit [wants you to do], you are not under [obligation to meet the requirements of] the law of Moses.

Philippians 4:13

I can do everything through Christ, who gives me the strength.

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