Bible Verses about the Sabbath

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• Remember the sabbath day, and 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; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
  Exodus 20:8-11
• Observe the sabbath day and 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; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you.
  Deuteronomy 5:12-14rest
• I the Lord am your God; follow my statutes, and be careful to observe my ordinances, and hallow my sabbaths that they may be a sign between me and you, so that you may know that I the Lord am your God.
  Ezekiel 20:19-20lawobedience
• If you refrain from trampling the sabbath,
  from pursuing your own interests on my holy day;
  if you call the sabbath a delight
  and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
  if you honor it, not going your own ways,
  serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs;
  then you shall take delight in the Lord,
  and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth;
  I will feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Jacob,
  for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
  Isaiah 58:13-14
• So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the 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. The Pharisees said 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 and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.” Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
  Mark 2:23-28bread
• Some judge one day to be better than another, while others judge all days to be alike. Let all be fully convinced in their own minds.
  Romans 14:5obediencewisdomneighbor
• How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.
  Matthew 12:12valuable
• Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
  Colossians 2:16-17foodjudgmentJesus
• So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
  Hebrews 4:9-10restwork
• Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a sabbath to the Lord throughout your settlements.
  Leviticus 23:3
• Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?” When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.
  Luke 13:10-17miracleshealing
• You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
  Leviticus 26:2
• Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs.
  Hebrews 4:11obediencerest
• 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