Matthew 11:28

Jesus invites all who are weary and burdened to come to Him for rest. He offers relief that the law and human effort cannot provide.

Cross-references · 33

• Matt 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
• John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
• John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
• Gal 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
• Isa 55:1–3“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
• Isa 48:17–18Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
• Jer 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
• Ps 116:7Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
• Isa 28:12to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
• Isa 45:22–25Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
• Matt 23:4They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
• Heb 4:1Therefore, 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.
• Mic 6:6–8With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
• Isa 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
• Ps 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
• Eccl 2:22–23For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
• 2 Th 1:7and 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
• Rom 7:22–25For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Isa 11:10On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
• Ps 94:13to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
• Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
• Eccl 1:8All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
• Eccl 4:8There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
• Isa 53:2–3He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
• Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
• Gen 3:17–19And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
• Ps 90:7–10For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
• Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
• Ps 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
• Eccl 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Isa 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

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