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?

So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?"

"And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

"You know not what kind of spirit you share, for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." And they went to another village.

"You blind guides! who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

"The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;