Bible Verses about the Sabbath

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• Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
  Exodus 20:8-11
• I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
  Ezekiel 20:19-20lawobedience
• Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
  Deuteronomy 5:12-14rest
• If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
  from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
  and call the Sabbath a delight
  and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
  if you honor it, not going your own ways,
  or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
  then you shall take delight in the Lord,
  and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
  I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
  for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
  Isaiah 58:13-14
• So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
  Genesis 2:3creationblessing
• One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
  Mark 2:23-28bread
• Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
  Matthew 12:12valuable
• One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
  Romans 14:5obediencewisdomneighbor
• Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
  Colossians 2:16-17foodjudgmentJesus
• So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
  Hebrews 4:9-10restwork
• Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
  Leviticus 23:3
• You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
  Leviticus 26:2
• Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
  Hebrews 4:11obediencerest
• Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
  Luke 13:10-17miracleshealing
• You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  Deuteronomy 5:15slavery