The Sabbath

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

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: — read the full passage →

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. — read the full passage →

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: — read the full passage →

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

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

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

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

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. — read the full passage →

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. — read the full passage →

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. — read the full passage →

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. — read the full passage →

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. — read the full passage →

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. — read the full passage →

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. — read the full passage →

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. — read the full passage →

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.

In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: — read the full passage →

See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

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

And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. — read the full passage →

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. — read the full passage →

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

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. — read the full passage →

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.

For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. — read the full passage →

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands. — read the full passage →

And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.