Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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

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

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

who encourages us in all our affliction, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction, through the comfort by which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is achieving for us a surpassing and eternal weight of glory,

And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather exult in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

I have strength for all things in Christ who strengthens me.