Bible Verses About Sabbath
This collection includes 50 passages about Sabbath. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
Scripture Passages
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.
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
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.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
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.
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.
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.
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.
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
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:
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
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.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
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:
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
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