Rest
20 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Days of
- Exodus 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
- Exodus 34:21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
Heavenly
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7 and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
Recommended by Jesus
- Mark 6:31–32 And He said to them, “Come with Me privately to a solitary place, and let us rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat. …
- Matthew 8:18 When Jesus saw a large crowd around Him, He gave orders to cross to the other side of the sea.
- Matthew 8:24 Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping.
Spiritual
- Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- Hebrews 4:1–11 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. …
The Annual Feasts, Added Rest Days
- Leviticus 23:7–8 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work. …
- Leviticus 23:21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
- Leviticus 23:25 You must not do any regular work, but you are to present a food offering to the LORD.’”
- Leviticus 23:28 On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 23:30–31 I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day. …
- Leviticus 23:35–36 On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work. …
- Numbers 28:18 On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- Numbers 28:25–26 On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work. …
- Numbers 29:1 “On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
- Numbers 29:7 On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.
- Numbers 29:12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.
- Numbers 29:35 On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.