7 Bible Verses about The Sabbath

But the Pharisees saw it and said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing something which it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath!" But he said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his companions were hungry? How is it that he went into the House of God and that they ate the Presentation Loaves which it was against the Law for him and his companions to eat, or for anyone except the priests? read more.
Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath? But I tell you, there is something greater than the Temple here! But if you knew what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty. For the Son of Man is master of the Sabbath."

A week after, the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came in and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you!"

On the first of every week each of you is to put aside and store up whatever he gains, so that money will not have to be collected after I come.

On the first day of the week, when we had met for the breaking of bread, Paul addressed them, as he was going away the next morning, and he prolonged his address until midnight.

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?

And did not this woman, who is a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, have to be released from those bonds on the Sabbath day?"

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! Therefore, it is right to do people good on the Sabbath."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

At that same time Jesus walked one Sabbath through the wheat fields, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of wheat and eat them.

Every Sabbath he would preach in the synagogue, and try to convince both Jews and Greeks.

Paul went to it as he was accustomed to do, and for three Sabbaths he discussed the Scriptures with them,

but they went on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue there and took seats. After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue authorities sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any appeal to make to the people, proceed."

On the Sabbath we went outside the gates, to the bank of the river where we supposed there was a praying place, and we sat down and talked with the women who gathered there.

for he says somewhere of the seventh day, "On the seventh day God rested after all his work,"

So there must still be a promised Sabbath of Rest for God's people.

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

And he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee. And he taught them on the Sabbath,

On another Sabbath he happened to go to the synagogue and teach. There was a man there whose right hand was withered.

but they went on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue there and took seats.

On the Lord's day I fell into a trance, and I heard a loud voice like a trumpet behind me

On the Lord's day I fell into a trance, and I heard a loud voice like a trumpet behind me

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

and so the Son of Man is master even of the Sabbath."

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