³⁰ For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

³ For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

³³ I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

¹⁰ So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

¹⁰ Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

¹⁸ But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

⁴ Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵ For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

⁸ He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

¹ Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

²⁸ For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;