Bible Verses About the Sabbath

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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 for to read.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

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

Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,