For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
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