Bible Verses about “the sabbath”
The Bible contains 16 verses about the sabbath across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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,”
“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.”
“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;”
“"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
“You shall labor six days, and do all your work,”
“For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.”
“"Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.”
“Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
“which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.”
“God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.”
“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.”
“He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
“"'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.”
“They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.”
“Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,”
“Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."”