Luke 6:9

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Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

And Jesus having answered, said to those skilled in the law and the Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to cure in the sabbath?

How much then does a man surpass a sheep? So that it is lawful to do well in the sabbaths.

And he says to them, Is it lawful in the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? to save a soul, or to kill? And they were silent.

Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you does the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

For the Son of man came not to destroy men's souls, but to save them. And they proceeded into another town:

Blind guides, straining a gnat, and swallowing down a camel.

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