Bible Verses about “working on the sabbath”
The Bible contains 12 verses about working on 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,”
“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.”
“'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.”
“He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?”
“Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."”
“Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."”
“You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"”