The Daily Office · For weariness
Abide in me
John 15:4–5
4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
What's happening here
These verses come from the long farewell on the last night before the crucifixion. Jesus is talking to disciples who are about to watch everything collapse. He does not tell them to be brave, or to remember his teachings, or to carry on the mission. He tells them to stay — to remain in him the way a branch remains on a vine. The imagery is not dramatic; it is small, rooted, and impossibly hard.
The word that matters
Greek · to remain, abide, stay put
Meno is one of John's favorite verbs — he uses it more than any other New Testament author. The Spirit meno-s on Jesus at his baptism; the word meno-s in the disciples; God's love meno-s in the one who keeps his commandments. It is not a dramatic verb. It means to stay. To not leave. To keep showing up. In a passage full of agricultural imagery — vine, branches, pruning, fruit — Jesus names the one human verb at the center.
Where else this shows up
John 1:32–33
The first time John uses meno in his Gospel — the Spirit "came down and remained on him" at Jesus' baptism.
1 John 2:28
"Abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence." Decades later, John is still using the same word.
Psalm 91:1
The Hebrew anticipation: whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in his shadow. The psalmist reaches for exactly the meno logic.
Across the whole Bible · weariness
Passages found by what they mean, not by keyword. Open any of them on the canvas.
Jeremiah 31:24–25
And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks. For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”
Psalm 102:23–24
He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days. “O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!”
Jeremiah 16:19–20
O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is…
Isaiah 8:21–22
They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. And they will…
Job 11:18–20
And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security. You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will court your favor. But the eyes of the wicked will fail…
Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.”
Jeremiah 8:14–15
Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.…
Jeremiah 46:6
“The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.
Proverbs 30:1–4
The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out. Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor…
Ephesians 3:14–18
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in…
Job 26:2–6
“How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! With whose help have you uttered words…
Acts 17:28
for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’