36 Bible Verses about relaxation
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A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;
Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,
The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.
The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.
For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.
The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.
Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.
And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.
Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.
She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.
And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of; and not to keep his friends from coming to see him.
And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:
And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.
Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.
Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.
If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.
And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them
Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.
