The Sabbath

And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.

so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.'

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, — read the full passage →

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil; — read the full passage →

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day <FI>alike<Fi> ; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together,

and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter, nor on a sabbath;

And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,

and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

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

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

on every first <FI>day<Fi> of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon <FI>them<Fi> that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings--commands of men.'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic 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 →

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, — read the full passage →

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh <FI>day<Fi> thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,

Then did they return to Jerusalem from the mount that is called of Olives, that is near Jerusalem, a sabbath's journey;

And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body <FI>is<Fi> of the Christ;

And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him,

And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass--he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields--and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass--he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields--and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? --so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →

And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,

And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,

for the son of man is lord even of the sabbath.'

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;'

And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching 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-first sabbath, as he is going through the corn fields, that his disciples were plucking the ears, and were eating, rubbing with the hands, — read the full passage →

And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbaths,