Bible Verses about the Sabbath

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• Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
  Exodus 20:8-11
• Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. You shall labor six days, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
  Deuteronomy 5:12-14rest
• I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them. Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
  Ezekiel 20:19-20lawobedience
• “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
  from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
  and call the Sabbath a delight,
  and the holy of Yahweh honorable,
  and honor it,
  not doing your own ways,
  nor finding your own pleasure,
  nor speaking your own words,
  then you will delight yourself in Yahweh,
  and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth,
  and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;”
  for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
  Isaiah 58:13-14
• God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
  Genesis 2:3creationblessing
• He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
  He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?”
  He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
  Mark 2:23-28bread
• One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
  Romans 14:5obediencewisdomneighbor
• Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.
  Matthew 12:12valuable
• Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
  Colossians 2:16-17foodjudgmentJesus
• There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest has himself 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 kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
  Leviticus 23:3
• He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way straighten herself up. When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.” He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.
  The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”
  Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water? Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
  As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
  Luke 13:10-17miracleshealing
• You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
  Leviticus 26:2
• Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
  Hebrews 4:11obediencerest
• You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  Deuteronomy 5:15slavery