Sabbath

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

“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 shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: — read the full passage →

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, — read the full passage →

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. — read the full passage →

“‘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.

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

“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 shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:

“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. — read the full passage →

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. — read the full passage →

They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. — read the full passage →

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. — read the full passage →

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.

Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. — read the full passage →

Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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.

“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. — read the full passage →

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.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. — read the full passage →

In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food. — read the full passage →

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;

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;

Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. — read the full passage →

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. — read the full passage →

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. — read the full passage →

“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. — read the full passage →

It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them; — read the full passage →

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. — read the full passage →

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’”

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, 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.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’” — read the full passage →

He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.

He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.

because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him. — read the full passage →

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: — read the full passage →

because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.