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Bible Verses about “sabbath day”

The Bible contains 42 verses about sabbath day across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Colossians 2:16
189 votes

“Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,”

Exodus 20:11
183 votes

“for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.”

Exodus 20:10
173 votes

“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;”

Exodus 20:8
170 votes

“"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

Exodus 20:9
162 votes

“You shall labor six days, and do all your work,”

Colossians 2:17
125 votes

“which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.”

Genesis 2:2
74 votes

“On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”

Genesis 2:3
72 votes

“God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.”

Luke 4:16
65 votes

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

Mark 2:27
38 votes

“He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”

Leviticus 23:3
36 votes

“"'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.”

Isaiah 58:14
32 votes

“then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:" for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

Hebrews 4:9
32 votes

“There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.”

Hebrews 4:10
32 votes

“For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.”

Isaiah 58:13
31 votes

“"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:”

Acts 16:13
19 votes

“On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.”

Exodus 31:17
17 votes

“It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"”

Exodus 31:15
12 votes

“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.”

Exodus 31:16
12 votes

“Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.”

Mark 2:28
11 votes

“Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."”

Exodus 16:23
10 votes

“He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"”

Exodus 16:24
10 votes

“They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.”

Exodus 16:25
10 votes

“Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.”

Exodus 16:26
10 votes

“Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."”

Exodus 16:27
10 votes

“It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.”

Exodus 16:28
10 votes

“Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?”

Exodus 16:29
10 votes

“Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."”

Exodus 16:30
10 votes

“So the people rested on the seventh day.”

Exodus 31:13
10 votes

“"Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.”

Exodus 31:14
10 votes

“You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.”

Deuteronomy 5:12
7 votes

“"Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.”

Deuteronomy 5:13
5 votes

“You shall labor six days, and do all your work;”

Deuteronomy 5:14
5 votes

“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.”

Deuteronomy 5:15
5 votes

“You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.”

Luke 13:10
2 votes

“He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.”

Luke 13:11
2 votes

“Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.”

Luke 13:12
2 votes

“When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."”

Luke 13:13
2 votes

“He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.”

Luke 13:14
2 votes

“The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"”

Luke 13:15
2 votes

“Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?”

Luke 13:16
2 votes

“Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"”

Luke 13:17
2 votes

“As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.”

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