What does the Bible say about sabbath day?
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The Bible teaches that God set apart one day in seven for holy rest, worship, and mercy, grounding this pattern in creation and calling his people to delight in him. Genesis 2:2-3 and Exodus 20:8-11 connect the Sabbath with God’s rest after creation, while Deuteronomy 5:12-15 also remembers redemption from slavery. Isaiah 58:13-14 presents Sabbath keeping as joyful devotion rather than burdensome rule keeping. Jesus declares that the Sabbath was made for man and that he is Lord of it (Mark 2:27-28), correcting legalistic abuses. Colossians 2:16-17 teaches that Old Covenant ceremonial observances pointed to Christ, while Hebrews 4:9-10 directs believers toward the deeper rest found in him.
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- Exodus 20:8-11
[8] "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. [9] You shall labor six days, and do all your work, [10] 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 man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; [11] 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.
- Isaiah 58:13-14
[13] 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: [14] then shall you 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.
- Colossians 2:16-17
[16] Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, [17] which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
- Leviticus 23:3
"'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
- Genesis 2:2-3
[2] 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. [3] God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Deuteronomy 5:12-15
[12] "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. [13] Six days shall you labor, and do all your work; [14] but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you. [15] 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.
- Mark 2:27
He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
- Mark 2:27-28
[27] He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. [28] Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."
- Luke 4:16
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.
- Hebrews 4:9-10
[9] There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. [10] For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
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