28 Bible Verses about relaxing

He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper,
So that the waves of the sea were still.

He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly].

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit and joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest [and daydream],”

“For I say to you that unless your righteousness (uprightness, moral essence) is more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

So whoever breaks one of the least [important] of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least [important] in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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

So they gave a supper for Him there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

For Christ is the end of the law [it leads to Him and its purpose is fulfilled in Him], for [granting] righteousness to everyone who believes [in Him as Savior].

And give Him no rest [from your prayers] until He establishes Jerusalem
And makes her a praise on the earth.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

So then, while we [as individual believers] have the opportunity, let us do good to all people [not only being helpful, but also doing that which promotes their spiritual well-being], and especially [be a blessing] to those of the household of faith (born-again believers).

“There the righteous and upright could reason with Him;
So I would be acquitted forever by my Judge.

When the sun came up God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he fainted and he wished to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Then I commended pleasure and enjoyment, because a man [without God] has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for this will stand by him in his toil through the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Jesus 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 released from your illness.”

The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have made it my own yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit. Cross references: 2 Corinthians 3:3 : Ex 24:12; 31:18; 32:15, 16; Jer 31:33 2 Corinthians 3:6 : Jer 31:31 2 Corinthians 3:7 : Ex 34:29-35 2 Corinthians 3:17 : Is 61:1, 2 end of crossrefs

Immediately the [Holy] Spirit forced Him out into the wilderness.

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or the virgin is concerned about the matters of the Lord, how to be holy and set apart both in body and in spirit; but a married woman is concerned about worldly things, how she may please her husband.

and so they incur condemnation for having set aside their previous pledge.

The wickedness of Ephraim [which is not yet completely punished] is bound up [as in a bag];
His sin is stored up [for judgment and destruction].

for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he immediately forgets what he looked like.

and to give relief to you who are so distressed and to us as well when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in a flame of fire,

This made the Jews more determined than ever to kill Him, for not only was He breaking the Sabbath [from their viewpoint], but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.