Matthew 11:28 Cross References

Matthew 11:28

28: Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:29

  1. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle, and you will find rest for your souls.

John 7:37

  1. On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, "If you are thirsty, come to me!

John 6:37

  1. However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.

Isaiah 55:1

  1. "Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink--even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk--it's all free!
  2. Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for the soul!
  3. "Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, for the life of your soul is at stake. I am ready to make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the mercies and unfailing love that I promised to David.

Galatians 5:1

  1. So Christ has really set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law.

Micah 6:6

  1. What can we bring to the LORD to make up for what we've done? Should we bow before God with offerings of yearling calves?
  2. Should we offer him thousands of rams and tens of thousands of rivers of olive oil? Would that please the LORD? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for the sins of our souls? Would that make him glad?
  3. No, O people, the LORD has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

Revelation 22:17

  1. The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." Let each one who hears them say, "Come." Let the thirsty ones come--anyone who wants to. Let them come and drink the water of life without charge.

Isaiah 48:17

  1. "The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is good and leads you along the paths you should follow.
  2. Oh, that you had listened to my commands! Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river and righteousness rolling like waves.

Isaiah 66:2

  1. My hands have made both heaven and earth, and they are mine. I, the LORD, have spoken! "I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word.

Isaiah 45:22

  1. Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other.
  2. I have sworn by my own name, and I will never go back on my word: Every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess allegiance to my name."
  3. The people will declare, "The LORD is the source of all my righteousness and strength." And all who were angry with him will come to him and be ashamed.
  4. In the LORD all the generations of Israel will be justified, and in him they will boast.

Jeremiah 6:16

  1. So now the LORD says, "Stop right where you are! Look for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls. But you reply, `No, that's not the road we want!'

Matthew 23:4

  1. They crush you with impossible religious demands and never lift a finger to help ease the burden.

Psalms 116:7

  1. Now I can rest again, for the LORD has been so good to me.

Isaiah 28:12

  1. God's people could have rest in their own land if they would only obey him, but they will not listen.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

  1. So what do people get for all their hard work?
  2. Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night they cannot rest. It is all utterly meaningless.

Hebrews 4:1

  1. God's promise of entering his place of rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to get there.

Isaiah 11:10

  1. In that day the heir to David's throne will be a banner of salvation to all the world. The nations will rally to him, for the land where he lives will be a glorious place.

Psalms 38:4

  1. My guilt overwhelms me--it is a burden too heavy to bear.

Isaiah 53:2

  1. My servant grew up in the LORD's presence like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
  2. He was despised and rejected--a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

  1. Everything is so weary and tiresome! No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.

2 Thessalonians 1:7

  1. And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels,

Isaiah 61:3

  1. To all who mourn in Israel, he will give beauty for ashes, joy instead of mourning, praise instead of despair. For the LORD has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory.

Romans 7:22

  1. I love God's law with all my heart.
  2. But there is another law at work within me that is at war with my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
  3. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin?
  4. Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Genesis 3:17

  1. And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
  2. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
  3. All your life you will sweat to produce food, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from dust, and to the dust you will return."

Psalms 90:7

  1. We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
  2. You spread out our sins before you--our secret sins--and you see them all.
  3. We live our lives beneath your wrath. We end our lives with a groan.
  4. Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone.

Psalms 94:13

  1. You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

  1. This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.

Acts 15:10

  1. Why are you now questioning God's way by burdening the Gentile believers with a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors were able to bear?

Isaiah 1:4

  1. Oh, what a sinful nation they are! They are loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil and corrupt children who have turned away from the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel, cutting themselves off from his help.

Psalms 32:4

  1. Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.

Job 14:1

  1. "How frail is humanity! How short is life, and how full of trouble!

Job 5:7

  1. People are born for trouble as predictably as sparks fly upward from a fire.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

  1. Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
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