Acts 15:10

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.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,

Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the Lord’s work.

Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.