Bible Verses about โvacationโ
The Bible contains 30 verses about vacation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โ"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.โ
โHe restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.โ
โYahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.โ
โHe makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.โ
โTake my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.โ
โFor my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."โ
โfor in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.โ
โbut the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;โ
โ"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.โ
โAlso that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.โ
โYou shall labor six days, and do all your work,โ
โIt is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.โ
โHe said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.โ
โOn the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.โ
โGod blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.โ
โBut he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.โ
โHe said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.โ
โ"'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.โ
โThere remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.โ
โFor he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.โ
โFor thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,โ
โLet us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.โ
โHe said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."โ
โNow when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.โ
โI said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.โ
โThe apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.โ
โThey went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.โ
โBehold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.โ
โ"I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."โ
โ"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.โ
