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Come unto me, all ye that labori and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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Isa. 55:1‑4• ¹Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
²Wherefore do ye weigh money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
³Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
⁴Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the peoples, a prince and commander to the peoples. (Isa. 55:1‑4)

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Isa. 45:22‑25• ²²Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and there is none else.
²³I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
²⁴Only in Jehovah, shall [one] say, have I righteousness and strength: to him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
²⁵In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. (Isa. 45:22‑25)

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Isa. 53:2‑3• ²For he shall grow up before him as a tender sapling, and as a root out of dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
³He is despised and shunned of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and like one from whom they hide [their] faces, he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa. 53:2‑3)

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Isa. 55:1‑3• ¹Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
²Wherefore do ye weigh money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
³Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:1‑3)

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John 6:37• ³⁷All that the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)

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John 7:37• ³⁷Now in the last, the great, day of the feast Jesus stood and cried, saying, If anyone thirst, let him come unto me and drink. (John 7:37)

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Rev. 22:17• ¹⁷And the Spirit and the bride say, Come; and let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come; let him that willeth take life's water freely. (Rev. 22:17)

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Matt. 23:4• ⁴but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger. (Matt. 23:4)

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Gen. 3:17‑19• ¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field;
¹⁹in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)

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Job 5:7• ⁷But man is born to trouble,{HR}As the sparks of flame make high their flight. (Job 5:7)

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Job 14:1• ¹Man, born of woman,{HR}Is of few days, and full of trouble, (Job 14:1)

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Psa. 32:4• ⁴For by day and by night thy hand is heavy upon me;{HR}My moisture hath been changed into the droughts of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:4)

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Psa. 38:4• ⁴For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:4)

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Psa. 90:7‑10• ⁷For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
⁹For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought.
¹⁰The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:7‑10)

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Eccl. 1:8,14• ⁸All things [are] fatiguing; one cannot express [them]:{HR}The eye is not satisfied with seeing,{HR}Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
¹⁴I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;{HR}And, behold, all [is] vanity and a striving after wind. (Eccl. 1:8,14)

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Eccl. 2:22‑23• ²²For what hath a man of all his labour,{HR}And of the striving of the heart,{HR}Wherein he laboureth under the sun?
²³For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail is grief;{HR}Yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. (Eccl. 2:22‑23)

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Eccl. 4:8• ⁸There is one, and he hath not a second;{HR}Yea, he hath neither son nor brother;{HR}Yet is there no end of all his labour,{HR}Neither is his eye satisfied with riches.{HR}For whom then, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good?{HR}This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. (Eccl. 4:8)

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Isa. 1:4• ⁴Ah! sinful nation; a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children corrupting themselves. They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are estranged backward. (Isa. 1:4)

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Isa. 61:3• ³to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty be given them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he might be glorified. (Isa. 61:3)

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Isa. 66:2• ²Even all those [things] hath my hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith Jehovah. But to this [man] will I look, to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and trembling at my word. (Isa. 66:2)

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Mic. 6:6‑8• ⁶Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
⁷Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
⁸He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Mic. 6:6‑8)

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Acts 15:10• ¹⁰Now therefore why tempt ye God, that ye should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? (Acts 15:10)

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Rom. 7:22‑25• ²²For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
²³but I see a different law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
²⁴Wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind am serving God's law, but with the flesh sin's law. (Rom. 7:22‑25)

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Gal. 5:1• ¹Stand fast in the freedom with which Christ hath freed us, and be not again held in a yoke of bondage. (Gal. 5:1)

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Matt. 11:29• ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls; (Matt. 11:29)

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Psa. 94:13• ¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,{HR}Until the pit be digged for the wicked. (Psa. 94:13)

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Psa. 116:7• ⁷Return to thy rest, O my soul;{HR}For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee. (Psa. 116:7)

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Isa. 11:10• ¹⁰And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse standing as an ensign or banner of the peoples; it shall the nations seek: and his resting place shall be glory. (Isa. 11:10)

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Isa. 28:12• ¹²to whom he said, This [is] the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this [is] the refreshing. But they would not hear. (Isa. 28:12)

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Isa. 48:17‑18• ¹⁷Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I [am] Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee in the way thou shouldest go.
¹⁸Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea; (Isa. 48:17‑18)

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Jer. 6:16• ¹⁶Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein . (Jer. 6:16)

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2 Thess. 1:7• ⁷and to you that are troubled rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with angels of his power (2 Thess. 1:7)

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Heb. 4:1• ¹Let us therefore fear lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you might seem to have failed of it. (Heb. 4:1)

• It is perfect grace: no restriction; no setting the Jew in the foremost seat of honor. But "Come unto Me, all ye that labor" — Jew or Gentile, it matters not. Are you miserable? Can you find no comfort? "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and I will give you rest." It is without condition or qualification if the needy but go to Him. (“Remarks on Matthew 11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and *I* will give you rest.

W. Kelly Translation

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Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)