7 Bible Verses about The Sabbath

And when the pharisees saw it they said to Him, See, thy disciples are doing what is not lawful for them to do on the sabbath. But He replied, Have ye not read what David did, when he, and his attendants, were hungry? how he went into the house of God, and did eat the shew-bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor those that were with him; but for the priests only? or have ye not read in the law, read more.
what profane sort of work the priests do in the temple on the sabbath-days, and yet are blameless? But I tell you, that a greater than the temple is here: and if ye had known what that scripture means, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice," ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.

And after eight days his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: and Jesus came (the doors being shut as before) and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you set apart something, putting it into the treasury, according as he is prospered: that there may be no need of collections, when I come.

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples were assembled together to break bread, Paul being about to depart on the morrow, preached unto them, and continued his discourse till midnight.

if then a man receive circumcision on the sabbath-day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry with me, because I made a man perfectly well on the sabbath-day?

what profane sort of work the priests do in the temple on the sabbath-days, and yet are blameless?

And might not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?

And of how much more worth is a man than a sheep? Sure then it is lawful to do good on the sabbath-days.

Now it was the sabbath-day, when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

The Lord therefore answered him and said, Thou hypocrite, does not any of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering?

And as He went into the house of one of the chief of the pharisees to eat on the sabbath-day, and they were watching Him,

About this time as Jesus passed through the cornfields on the sabbath-day, his disciples being hungry began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat them.

And he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath-day, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

And according to his custom Paul went in among them, and for three sabbath-days discoursed to them from the scriptures;

And they passing on from Perga came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, deliver it.

And on the sabbath-day we went out of the city to a river-side, where there used to be prayer: and we sat down and preached to the women that resorted thither.

for it is thus said concerning the seventh day, "And God rested the seventh day from all his works."

There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God:

For the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing Him, have indeed fulfilled the words of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day, in condemning Him.

For Moses hath had from ancient times those that preach him in every city, and is still read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

Then said some of the pharisees, This man is not of God, because He doth not keep the sabbath: but others said, How can a wicked man do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

But the ruler of the synagogue, being provoked that Jesus had wrought a cure on the sabbath-day, said to the people, There are six days in which ye ought to work; on these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.

And He came down to Capernaum a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath-days,

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

And they passing on from Perga came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and sat down.

Here I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day: and heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

Here I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day: and heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and according to his custom He went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and stood up to read.

and therefore the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

And He said moreover unto them, The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath: