Nehemiah 10:31
We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.
Exodus 23:10-11
"For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.
Nehemiah 13:15-22
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.
Exodus 20:10
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.
Leviticus 23:3
"'Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.
Exodus 12:16
On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind on them, only what every person will eat -- that alone may be prepared for you.
Leviticus 16:29
"This is to be a perpetual statute for you. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you must humble yourselves and do no work of any kind, both the native citizen and the foreigner who resides in your midst,
Leviticus 23:21
"'On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.
Leviticus 23:35-36
On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.
Leviticus 25:1-7
The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:
Deuteronomy 5:12-14
Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the Lord your God has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 15:1-3
At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.
Deuteronomy 15:7-9
If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.
2 Chronicles 36:21
This took place to fulfill the Lord's message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied.
Nehemiah 5:1-13
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
Isaiah 58:6
No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
Isaiah 58:13-14
You must observe the Sabbath rather than doing anything you please on my holy day. You must look forward to the Sabbath and treat the Lord's holy day with respect. You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities, and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals.
Jeremiah 17:21-22
The Lord says, 'Be very careful if you value your lives! Do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
Matthew 6:12
and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 18:27-35
The lord had compassion on that slave and released him, and forgave him the debt.
Colossians 2:16
Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days --
James 2:13
For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.