72 Bible Verses about Rest, Physical

And Jacob's spring was there. Then Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat thus by the spring: it was about the sixth hour.

And he was upon the back part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow: and they aroused him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?

And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little: for many were coming and returning, and neither had they leisure to eat.

And Jesus said to him, Foxes have dens, and fowls of heaven encampments; but the Son of man has not where he might lay down the head.

He will cause me to lie down in pastures of tender grass: he will lead me to the water of rest He will turn back my soul: he will guide me into the tracks of justice for sake of his name.

Good a dry morsel and peace with it, above a house full of sacrifices of contention.

Come to me, all ye wearied and loaded, and I will cause you to rest. 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. For my yoke is useful, and my load is light.

In peace together shall I lie down, and I shall sleep: for thou Jehovah alone wilt cause me to dwell confidently.

In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

Six days thou shalt work, and in the seventh day thou shalt cease: and in ploughing and in harvest thou shalt cease.

And he said to them, The sabbath was for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Remember the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it Six days thou shalt work and do all thy service: And the seventh day the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shall do no service, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy servant, and thy maid, and thy cattle, and thy stranger which is in thy gates.read more.
For six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all which is in them, and he will rest in the seventh day: for this Jehovah praised the seventh day and consecrated it.

Watch the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. Six days thou shalt work and do all thy work, And the seventh day, the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy stranger who is in thy gates; so that thy servant and thy maid shall rest like thyself.read more.
And remember that thou wert a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out from there by a strong hand and by an extended arm: for this, Jehovah thy God commanded thee to do the day of the Sabbath.

Six days shall work be done, and the seventh day the Sabbath, a holy rest to Jehovah: all doing work in the day of the Sabbath, dying, shall die.

Six days thou shalt do work and in the seventh day a holy cessation, a cessation to Jehovah: all doing work in it shall die.

Six days shall work be done; the seventh day a Sabbath of rest, a holy calling: ye shall not do any work: it is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

In those days I saw in Judah those treading the wine-presses in the Sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and loading upon the asses; and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, and bringing into Jerusalem in the day of the Sabbath: and I shall testify in the day of their selling provision.

If thou shalt turn back thy foot from the Sabbath, doing thy delight in my holy day; and thou calledst to the Sabbath a delight for the holy of Jehovah, being honored; and thou honoredst him from doing thy ways, from finding thy delight, and speaking the word. Then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah, and I caused thee to ride upon the heights of the earth, and I caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah spake.

Upon our necks were we pursued: we labored and no rest to us.

He gave power to the faint; and to the not strong he will increase strength. And the boys shall be faint and weary, and the young men faltering, shall become feeble And they waiting for Jehovah shall change power; they shall go up on the wing as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall go and not faint.

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress? Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size?read more.
And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin: And I say to you that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these. And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith! Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us? For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these. But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you. Therefore should ye not be anxious about the morrow: for the morrow shall be anxious about the things of itself. Sufficient for the day its evil.

And thou didst trust, for there is hope; and thou didst search out; thou shalt lie down confidently. And thou shalt lie down and none terrifying; and many waited for thy face.

I lay down and I, shall sleep; I awaked: for Jehovah will uphold me.

I set Jehovah before me always: for from my right hand I shall not be moved.

If thou shalt lie down thou shalt not be afraid: and thou liest down and thy sleep shall be sweet

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God. And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

And Joshua will take all the land which Jehovah spake to Moses, and Joshua will give it for an inheritance to Israel according to their portion to their tribes. And the land rested from war.

And the name of Hebron before, the city of Arba; he the great man among the Anakims And the land rested from war.

And now Jehovah my God caused rest to me from round about; not an adversary and not an evil event

Behold, a son being born to thee, he shall be a man of rest; and I caused rest to him from all his enemies from round about: for Solomon shall be his name, and I will give peace and quiet upon Israel in his days.

Causing wars to cease even to the end of the earth; he will break the bow, and be cut off the spear, and he will burn the cars in fire. Desist, and know that I am God: I will be exalted in the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.

And it was in that day Jehovah gave rest to thee from thy toil and from thy trouble, and from the hard service which was served upon thee.

As to the rest, brethren, rejoice. Be adjusted, be comforted, think the same, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall with you.

And I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same, and there be no divisions in you; and ye be set in order in the same mind and in the same knowledge.

And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;

Follow peace with all, and consecration, without which none shall see the Lord:

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned. And the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those making peace.

And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:

And there is a great hurricane of wind, and the waves struck against the ship, so that it was already filled. And he was upon the back part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow: and they aroused him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?

And, behold, a great shaking was in the sea, so that the ship was covered by the waves: and be slept. And his disciples, having come near, awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we are lost.

And they sailing, he fell asleep: and a hurricane of wind came down upon the lake; and they were filled, and were in peril. And having come near, they awoke him, saying, Ruler ruler, we perish. And having risen, he censured the wind and heaving of water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.

Take me away now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he shall come and smite me, the mother upon the sons.

And they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none terrifying: for the mouth of Jehovah of armies spake.

Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us?

And ye, seek ye not what ye eat, or what ye drink, and keep not in anxiety.

Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.

And he will say, My face and my rest shall go to thee.

The God of the beginning testifying, and underneath, the perpetual arms: and he will thrust out the enemy from before thee, and will say, Destroy.

Come to me, all ye wearied and loaded, and I will cause you to rest.

To Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell confidently by him; he covered over him all the day, and he dwelt between his shoulders.

The fear of Jehovah is to life: and he being filled shall lodge satisfied; he shall not be reviewed for evil.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Happy the dead who dying in the Lord from henceforth: Yes, says the Spirit, that they might cease from their fatigues; and their works follow with them.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Behold thee lying down with thy fathers, and this people rising up and committing fornication after the gods of the foreigner of the land where he going there in the midst of him, and he forsook me and brake my covenant which I made with him.

For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me. With kings and counselors of the earth building the wastes for themselves; Or with chiefs, gold to them, filling their houses with silver:read more.
Or as a hidden abortion I shall not be; as children they saw not light. There the unjust ceased to be angry, and the weary in strength shall rest.

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and cold in the night, and sleep will flee away from mine eyes.

And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.

In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;

In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Thou saidst, Wo to me now! for Jehovah added grief upon my pain; I was weary in my sighing, and I found not rest.

I was not secure, and I rested not, and I was not quiet; and trouble will come.

Thou didst hold mine eyes watching: I was moved, and I will not speak.

Then the king departed to his temple and passed the night fasting: and he brought not his concubines before him, and his sleep fled from him.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day. For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence. I will make known to thee my sin, and mine iniquity I hid not I said, I will confess upon my transgression to Jehovah; and thou didst take away the iniquity of my sin. Silence.

When thou shalt work the earth she shall not add to give her strength to thee. Wandering and fleeing shalt thou be in the earth.

And among these nations thou shalt not rest, and there shall not be rest to the sole of thy foot: and Jehovah gave to thee there a trembling heart and a wasting away of the eyes, and a faintnesss of soul. And thy lives were hung before thee; and thou wert afraid night and day, and thou shalt not trust to thy life In the morning thou shalt say, Who shall give evening? and in the evening thou shalt say, Who shall give morning? from the feat of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

No peace, said Jehovah, to the unjust

And the unjust as the tossed sea when it shall not be able to rest, and its waters will toss up mud and mire; no peace, said God, to the unjust.