7 Bible Verses about The Sabbath

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him: Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath. But he said to them: Have you not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry? how he entered the house of God, and ate the loaves of the presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but for the priests only? read more.
Or, have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? But I say to you, that something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means I desire mercy, and not sacrifice you would not have condemned the blameless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas was with them. Then Jesus came, though the doors had been closed, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you.

On the first day of the week, let each of you lay by him, and treasure up as he has prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.

And on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, intending to depart on the morrow; and he continued his speech till mid night.

If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath-day, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I have restored the entire man to health on the sabbath-day?

Or, have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

And ought not this woman, who is a daughter of Abra ham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?

How much better, then, is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath-days.

And it was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

Hypocrites, does not each one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stable, and lead him away, and give him water?

And it came to pass, that he went, on the sabbath day, into the house of one of the chief men of the Pharisees, to eat bread; and they watched him.

At that time Jesus was going, on the Sabbath, through the fields of grain; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pull the ears of grain, and to eat.

But on every sabbath, he reasoned in the synagogue, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

And Paul, according to his custom, went in to them, and, for three sabbath-days, he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

But having passed through from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia; and on the sabbath-day they went into the synagogue, and sat down. After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Brethren, if you have a word of exhortation for the people, speak.

and on the sabbath-day we went out of the city to the side of a river, where, as usual, was the house of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, thus: And God did rest on the seventh day from all his works;

There remains, therefore, a sabbath state for the people of God.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, be cause they did not know him, nor the words of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

For, from ancient times, Moses has, in every city, those who preach him, being read in the synagogue every sabbath-day.

Then some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, for he keeps not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them?

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had performed a cure on the sabbath-day, answered and said to the multitude: There are six days in which work ought to be done; on these, therefore, come and be cured, and not on the sabbath-day. Then the Lord answered him and said:

And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath-days.

And it came to pass, on another sabbath, that he entered the synagogue and taught; and a man was there, whose right hand was withered.

But having passed through from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia; and on the sabbath-day they went into the synagogue, and sat down.

I was in spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice like that of a trumpet,

I was in spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice like that of a trumpet,

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he entered the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and stood up to read.

Therefore, the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

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