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 spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, 'Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'

How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? -- so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'

And he saith to them, 'Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?' but they were silent.

hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save;' and they went on to another village.

'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

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