7 Bible Verses about The Sabbath

the Pharisees seeing that, said to him, see, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath-day. he answer'd them, have ye not read what David and the rest of the company did when they were hungry, how he entred into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which it was not lawful either for him or his company to eat, but only for the priests? read more.
or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed? now I tell you, that the work now in hand, is of greater consequence than that of the temple. if ye had known the meaning of that expression, "I will have mercy and not sacrifice," ye would not have condemned the guiltless. for the sabbath is subservient to men.

Eight days after, when his disciples were again in private, and Thomas with them: Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, peace be with you.

every sabbath-day let every one of you set apart something of what he has happily gain'd, for the common treasury, that there may be no collection when I come.

on the first day of the week we assembled to break bread, when Paul, who was to depart on the morrow, gave them a sermon, which lasted till midnight.

if to avoid the violation of the Mosaic law, a man be exposed to circumcision on the sabbath-day, are ye angry at me, because I cured a man, whose whole body was indisposed on the sabbath-day?

or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed?

and must not this daughter of Abraham, whom satan has held bound these eighteen years, be disengag'd from this bond, on a sabbath-day?

is not a man of much greater consequence than a sheep? how lawful then is it to do good offices on the sabbath-day?

now it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the clay, and gave him his sight.

to which Jesus replied, thou hypocrite, who is there among you that scruples to untie his ox or his ass, and lead him from the stall to water on the sabbath-day?

One sabbath-day, Jesus went to dine with a Pharisee of the first distinction, where he was strictly observ'd.

At that time as Jesus pass'd through the corn on the sabbath day, his disciples being hungry, pluck'd the ears of corn, and fell to eating.

and try'd to gain upon the Jews and the Greek proselytes:

Paul, as was his custom, us'd to go there, and for three sabbath-days discours'd to the Jews from the scriptures,

From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going to the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they took their places, and after the lesson out of the law and the prophets was finish'd, the heads of the synagogue sent this message to them; Men and brethren, if you have any instruction to offer to the people, deliver it.

we went out of town on the sabbath towards the river, where the Jews were allowed to have an oratory.

of which in a certain place relating to the seventh day, 'tis said, "and God did rest the seventh day from all his works."

which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come.

as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day:

for as to the law of Moses, that has been published in every city a considerable time, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

thereupon some of the Pharisees said, this man has no divine mission, because he does not observe the sabbath. but said others, if he be an impostor, how can he do such miracles? and there was a schism among them.

but the ruler of the synagogue being highly incensed at Jesus's healing on the sabbath-day, said to the people, there are six days for work, you should come therefore for cure on those days, and not on the sabbath.

At length he went to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath-days.

On another sabbath-day it happen'd, that he went into the synagogue to preach, where a man was present, who had the palsy in his right hand.

From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going to the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they took their places,

there I was in an exstacy on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a loud voice, like the sound of a trumpet,

there I was in an exstacy on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a loud voice, like the sound of a trumpet,

being come to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; according to his custom, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and standing up to read,

therefore the son of man has a power of dispensing with the law of the sabbath.

adding this observation, "the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath."