7 Bible Verses about The Sabbath

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? read more.
Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are innocent? I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you!"

On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?

Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are innocent?

Then ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years, be loosed on the Sabbath day from this bond?"

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

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they watched him.

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

And every Sabbath he was reasoning in the synagogue, and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and for three weeks he reasoned with them from the scriptures,

But they passed on from Perga and came to Pisidian Antioch. 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 any word of exhortation for the people, say it."

and on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had come together.

For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God;

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.

For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

Then he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and he was teaching them on the Sabbath.

On another Sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.

But they passed on from Perga and came to Pisidian Antioch. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

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