'Ease' in the Bible
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation].
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls.
“When the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places in search [of a place] of rest; and not finding any, it says, ‘I will go back to my house (person) from which I came.’
Jesus said, "How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law, too! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you don't even lift a finger to ease those burdens.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
If Timothy comes, see to it that [you put him at ease, so that] he has nothing to fear in regard to you, for he is [devotedly] doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.
For even when we arrived in Macedonia our bodies had no rest, but we were oppressed at every turn—conflicts and disputes without, fears and dread within.
For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
And those [non-believers] who live on the earth will gloat over them and rejoice; and they will send gifts [in celebration] to one another, because these two prophets tormented and troubled those who live on the earth.
Related Words
- Eased (7 instances in 6 translations)
- Eases (1 instance in 2 translations)
- Easier (13 instances in 12 translations)
- Easily (30 instances in 12 translations)
- Easily-provoked (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Easing (1 instance in 1 translation)
- East-facing (10 instances in 1 translation)
- East-to-west (1 instance in 1 translation)
Bible Theasaurus
- Alleviate (2 instances)
- Comfort (145 instances)
- Content (49 instances)
- Ease (66 instances)
- Elegance (2 instances)
- Facility (1 instance)
- Leisure (5 instances)
- Pleasure (367 instances)
- Relaxation (2 instances)
- Relief (58 instances)
- Relieve (21 instances)
- Repose (10 instances)
- Rest (942 instances)
- Simpleness (1 instance)
- Simplicity (13 instances)
- State (107 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
Mizrach
Qedem
Mowtsa'
Qadmowniy
Qalal
Shalev