7 Bible Verses about The Sabbath

But the Pharisees, seeing it, said to him, Lo! thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath. But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry? how he went into the house of God, and they ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but for the priests alone? read more.
Or have ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths 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 ye had known what this meaneth, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice," ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

And after eight days the disciples were again within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you!

Every first day of the week let each of you lay by him something in store, according as he hath prospered; that the collections may not have to be made when I come.

And on the first day of the week, when we had assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, being about to depart on the morrow, and continued the discourse until midnight.

If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye angry at me, because I have restored soundness to the whole body of a man on the sabbath?

Or have ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo! for eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbathday?

Of how much more worth now is a man than a sheep! So then it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.

And the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the sabbath.

But the Lord answered him and said, Hypocrites, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away and water him?

And it came to pass, when he had come into the house of one of the chief men of the Pharisees on the sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of grain, and to eat.

And he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath, and endeavored to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

And Paul, as his custom was, went in among them, and for three sabbaths discoursed to them out of the Scriptures,

And they, going on from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbathday, and sat down. And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

And on the sabbathday we went forth out of the gate to a riverside, where was wont to be a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had assembled.

For he hath spoken in a certain place of the seventh day thus: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

There remaineth therefore a sabbathrest to the people of God.

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them in condemning him.

For Moses from the times of old hath had in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth 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 answering, being filled with indignation because Jesus had performed a cure on the sabbath, said to the multitude, There are six days in which it is proper to work; on those therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbathday.

And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbath.

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

And they, going on from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbathday, and sat down.

I was in the Spirit on the Lords day; and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

I was in the Spirit on the Lords day; and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

And he came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbathday; and stood up to read.

So that the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.

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