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?

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."

He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.

Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

For the Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." They went to another village.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.