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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 2:2, 3

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. / Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 16:5, 23–30

Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” / He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’” / So the people rested on the seventh day.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 20:8–11

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. / Six days you shall labor and do all your work, / but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 23:12

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 31:13–17

“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. / Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people. / For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 34:21

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 35:2, 3

For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death. / Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 16:29–31

This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you— / because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD. / It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 19:3, 30

Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. / You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 23:1–3, 27–32

Then the LORD said to Moses, / “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. / For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 24:8

Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 26:2, 34, 35

You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD. / Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. / As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Numbers 15:32–36

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. / Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation, / and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Numbers 28:9, 10

On the Sabbath day, present two unblemished year-old male lambs, accompanied by a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, as well as a drink offering. / This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 5:12–15

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. / Six days you shall labor and do all your work, / but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Kings 4:23

“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Chronicles 9:32

Some of their Kohathite brothers were responsible for preparing the rows of the showbread every Sabbath.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Chronicles 36:21

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Nehemiah 9:13, 14

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. / You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Nehemiah 10:31

When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Nehemiah 13:15–22

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day. / Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem. / Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 92:1–15

A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High, / to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night / with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 118:24

This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 1:13

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 56:2

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 58:13, 14

If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words, / then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 66:23

From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 17:21, 22, 24–27

This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. / You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers. / If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Lamentations 2:6

He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ezekiel 20:12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 24

I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. / Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness. / because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ezekiel 22:8

You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ezekiel 23:38

They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ezekiel 44:24

In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ezekiel 46:1, 3

“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened. / On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow in worship before the LORD at the entrance to that gateway.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Amos 8:5

asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 12:1–8, 10–12

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. / When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” / Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 24:20

Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 2:27, 28

Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. / Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 6:2

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these ideas?” they asked. “What is this wisdom He has been given? And how can He perform such miracles?

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 16:1

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they could go and anoint the body of Jesus.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 4:16, 31

Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read, / Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach the people.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 6:1–10

One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them. / But some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” / Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 13:10–17

One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, / and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight. / When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 14:1–6

One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the home of a leading Pharisee, and those in attendance were watching Him closely. / Right there before Him was a man with dropsy. / So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 23:54, 56

It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was beginning. / Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 5:5–14

One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. / When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?” / “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 7:21–24

Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. / But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.) / If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 9:1–34

Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth, / and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” / Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 19:31

It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Acts 13:14, 27, 42, 44

And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down. / The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. / As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people urged them to continue this message on the next Sabbath.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Acts 15:21

For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Acts 16:13

On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Acts 17:2

As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Acts 18:4

Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

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Sabbath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hebrews 4:4, 9

For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.” / There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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