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 answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

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

And he saith to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? but they held their peace.

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

Ye blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

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