28 Bible Verses about relaxing

He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

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

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace.

So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other.

And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability."

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.

and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.

and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.

For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.