Sabbath Verses Listing:

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Below is listed every single verse in the King James Version of the bible where the words "Sabbath," "Sabbaths," "seventh," or "Lord’s day" occurs where it may have any connection with the 7th day Sabbath found in the 10 commandments.  For completeness, this includes the feast Sabbaths that the Israelites were commanded to keep, which are not the same as the Seventh-day Sabbath that is part of the 10 commandments.  There are some things about the Seventh-day Sabbath that can be learned from the feast Sabbaths.

Most verses relating to the feast or ceremonial Sabbaths have been moved to a separate section within this page.  There are some that have applications to both, so as many of those that the author could find are located in the main section and the feast & ceremonial Sabbath section.

The Sabbath is defined in the Bible as the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday.  Dictionaries of the English language define Saturday as the 7th day of the week.  Some have argued that changes to the calendar make it impossible to know which day is truly Saturday, but that is false.  Calendar changes have simply changed the numbering of the days on the calendar but have never changed or altered the sequence of the days of the week since the creation of life upon this planet.  Monday (second day of the week) continued to follow Sunday (the first day of the week), and so on.  No days of the weekly cycle were skipped.  The 7 day cycle of days has never changed throughout history since the week of creation.

There are those who say that the feast Sabbaths were done away with at the cross, and they are right about that because they pointed forward in time to Christ and what he would accomplish here on earth.  Col 2:16-17 says  "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."  Those things spoken of here include all things that point directly forwards to Christ, which includes the feast Sabbaths for it does say "...which are a shadow of things to come" in reference to the things just listed.  Anybody who has studied the ceremonial and sacrificial laws, which included the feast Sabbaths in connection with them, will know that they clearly point forward to the life, death, and ministry of Jesus. 

The Seventh-day Sabbath of the Sabbath commandment was not done away with by the cross, however, because it, by its very definition as stated in the Sabbath commandment itself, never pointed forward in time to Christ and his work here on earth.  God created it at the time of creation of life upon this earth and set it up as a memorial of creation and of his creative power.  Hence, as stated in the Sabbath Commandment, the commandment Sabbath points backwards in time to creation, not forwards.  This is in contrast to the feast Sabbaths, which pointed forwards to Jesus and his life, death, and ministry.  The only logical conclusion is that Colossians 2:16-17 is referring to the feast Sabbaths, not the 7th day Sabbath.  It cannot include the commandment Sabbath.  They are mutually exclusive by their very definitions.

There are those who point out that God set aside the 7th day Sabbath at creation, but there is no record of any command to keep that day until the Israelites heard God pronounce it from Mount Sinai.  Therefore, some argue that this means there was no requirement to keep it before Mount Sinai.  This is false reasoning.  The Sabbath commandment is part of the 10 commandments, the Sabbath was set up by God as part of the Creation Week as recorded in the creation story, even if not recorded as a command before Mount Sinai.  God had no need to make the day holy for Himself. Therefore, when he made it holy (he sanctified it, which means he made it a day dedicated to God), he was giving a gift of time to man, a time to spend with His creator as a means of bringing him closer to the creator and to be certain that man did not forget his creator. There was no way that God would make a day holy and then fail to tell man about it. God isn't stupid. And, consider that God made each of the days of the week and did something on that day that ultimately concerned this world and life upon it. Thus, when he made the 7th day holy, he was doing that for this world, not heaven, not for himself, not for some other world in the universe, but instead, just for this world. So, though there may not have been a direct RECORDED command at the time of creation week to keep the Sabbath holy, that does not mean there was no command to mankind about it.

As a matter of fact, we have record that there was a command given about the sacrificial system just after the fall of man in the garden, and yet it was not recorded as having been given at that time by the writer of Genesis. But just like the Sabbath commandment, it was later verbally stated and written down so that everyone would have written notice of it. Here is that evidence: the story of Cain and Abel. Both brought an offering to God but God refused to accept one of them. What was it that they brought? Cain brought of his garden, which I am sure made sense to him because he had worked hard to grow the things he brought. But evidently God had given specific instructions about what was to be done because He was displeased with what Cain had brought. Now, God is not unreasonable. If He had not bothered to tell Cain what was required, then you can be sure that God would have not held him responsible for it and would have accepted the offering he brought. But because He was displeased, you can be sure that he had told Cain what was expected.

On the other hand, he did accept Abel's offering. What did Abel bring? The Bible says he brought a firstling of his flock. Now if you compare that to the commands given to the Israelites later on in regards to the sacrificial system, it matches one of several ways of that which they were told to bring for a sacrifice for sin (see Leviticus 4:32-33). So, it is clear that God had obviously told Abel what was to be done. Therefore, God had given instruction about at least some aspects of the sacrificial system, even if the writer of Genesis did not record that God gave such a command. If this were not true, then how would Abel know what to bring and why not accept Cain's offering? The only way this makes any sense is if God had actually given the instructions of what was to be done. Otherwise, it shows him being unreasonable and unpredictable without reason, something that we know God is not.

The logical conclusion is that even though the writer of Genesis may not have recorded the command to keep the Sabbath day holy, there is absolutely every reason to believe that it was in fact given.

Consider also that before Mount Sinai there is no record of a command from God not to steal from your neighbor, but does that mean that before Mount Sinai, people could freely take from others without permission and not be guilty of sin by stealing?  There is no record of a command not to murder, yet the story of Cain and Abel makes it abundantly clear that what Cain did to Abel broke the law of God.  God was greatly displeased with Cain for his act.  In the same law that says "Thou shall not murder," is the command to "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy...the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God," which makes God the Lord of the Sabbath just as Jesus said he was - see Luke 6:5.  Therefore, at some point in the Garden of Eden, God must have explained his law to Adam and Eve, though we have no written record of that.  If that were not true, how could they be accountable for sin?  Where there is no law, there is no sin.

Rom 4:15 - Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. 

Think about this as you study the texts below.

There is one other common mistake people make about this.  They claim that the Sabbath was done away with at the cross because we are now in a new covenant.  That is false reasoning.  Jesus Himself proved this, and here is how:

Mat 24:15 - When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Mat 24:16 - Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:

Mat 24:17 - Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Mat 24:18 - Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

Mat 24:19 - And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Mat 24:20 - But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:

Now, if you understand these verses, it is a clear reference to the siege and invasion of the city of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D. - long after the cross and long after the writings of Paul.  Clearly 70 A.D. is well within what many Christians call the new covenant time frame (there really was only one covenant ever but that is another issue).  Here Jesus is directing his comments to the Christians of the future, not the Jews present there listening to him that day.  Jesus knew from His study of Daniel 9:24-27 that by the time this invasion was to take place, the Jews would have long since rejected Him. Therefore, the only audience He could possibly have addressed this statement to would have been the Christians who happened to be in Jerusalem at the time of the Roman siege and invasion of the city.  Proof of that is that historically, it was theChristians who listened to his advice and got out of Jerusalem when the Roman army came and surrounded the city. Had the Jews listened, they too would have been saved, but they were not listening, so they died in the destruction of the city. In the final analysis, Jesus was saying that the Sabbath would still in effect long after the cross and He expected Christians to be keeping it.  These are the words of Jesus Himself.  There is no higher authority, so this should not be ignored.

One other thing about this statement by Jesus.  There are those who teach that the day the Sabbath is to be kept on was to change after the cross.  Now, if the day the Sabbath was to be kept on was to be changed by God after the cross, this would have been a golden opportunity to tell the world about it.  Think about it.  Here he was speaking to an audience for an event that was yet nearly 40 years into the future.  What a great opportunity to tell them that they should pray that their flight not be on the FIRST DAY of the week, and then mention that in the future after the cross, the Sabbath would be the first day of the week.  How very strange, isn't it, that He did not do this?  He could have!  Why didn't He?  Think about these things as you read below.

Many say that they keep the first day of the week (Sunday) as the Sabbath in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus.  But there is no command in the Bible to do that.  Therefore, where is the justification from God to do this? Some have tried to claim that Matthew 28:1 gives that justification, but that is false. Here is what Matthew 28:1 says:

Mat 28:1 At the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. (KJV)

I more literal translation of this verse that is more accurately done is this:

Mat 28:1 And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre, (Young's Literal Translation Version)

Note that the phrase "first day of the week" in the King James Version is changed to "toward the first of the sabbaths" in the Young's Literal Translation Version, which is more accurately stated. The phrase as stated in the Young's Literal Translation Version is used as an excuse by some to claim that this meant the Sabbath became the first day of the week and therefore this shows the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. But this is false reasoning. For one, it does not say that the Sabbath was changed. Second, since the Seventh-day Sabbath is part of the Ten Commandments, they cannot be changed except by a direct command of God. While this could be seen as one of those unrecorded changes like occured with the story of Cain and Abel, that would only be true if such a command were recorded elsewhere at a later date as part of the New Testament. No such command from God has ever been found in the New Testament. Third and probably most significantly, the phrase first of the Sabbaths was a very well known idea in the time of Jesus. This is actually a reference to the command of God to COUNT seven Sabbaths between the Passover, which had just taken place, to the time when they were to present another grain offering (see Leviticus 23:15-16). Therefore, the phrase "first of the sabbaths" referred to the first of the seven counted Sabbaths that followed the Passover. Consequently, this verse, Matthew 28:1 had absolutely nothing to do with a change of the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the first day of the week.

 

Included at the end is a section listing all New Testament texts with the phrase "first day".  This should be enlightening.

We would like to suggest that you study these verses over and base your decision for or against the Sabbath issue on the preponderance of the evidence.

Evidence Links within this web page:

7th Day Sabbath Verses Listing

Feast or Ceremonial Sabbath Verses Listing

First Day Verses Listing

These outside links about the Sabbath should also be of interest to you:

• Sixty Bible Facts Concerning the Seventh Day
  
  
• Forty Bible Facts Concerning the First Day of the Week
  
  
• A Short History of the Sabbath from 100 AD to 1800
  
  

Do you Really want to know the history of how the Sabbath was actually changed from Saturday to Sunday?  Click here to read a couple of sample chapters from Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi's book From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity (the chapter titles are on the left hand side of his web page - click on these to read them), which is a translation of his doctoral dissertation done over 5 years through research using the most ancient documents available at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.  This is an authoritative work on this subject because of the scholarly nature of the work done and the use of the ancient documents available to him from the best source of such documents in the world.  You can also order a copy of his book through his web page by way of a secure link.  Just so you know, the authors of this web site have NO financial interest in any of Dr. Bacchiocchi's books.

Click here to see Dr. Bacchiocchi's video about how the Sabbath was changed to Sunday.

Seventh Day Sabbath verses Listing:

Genesis 2:2 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 2:3 - 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.

Exodus 16:23 - And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

Exodus 16:25 - And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath unto the LORD: today ye shall not find it in the field.

Exodus 16:26 - Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

Exodus 16:27 - And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

Exodus 16:29 - 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.

Exodus 16:30 - So the people rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 20:8 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 20:9 - Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,

Exodus 20:10 - 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:

Exodus 20:11 - 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.

Exodus 31:13 - 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.

Exodus 31:14 - 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.

Exodus 31:15 - 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.

Exodus 31:16 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Exodus 31:17 - It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Exodus 34:21 - Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Exodus 35:2 - Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Exodus 35:3 - Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Leviticus 19:3 - Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:30 - Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 23:3 - Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 24:8 - Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

Leviticus 26:2 - Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Numbers 15:32 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5:12 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

Deuteronomy 5:14 - 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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Deuteronomy 5:15 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

2 Kings 4:23 - And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

2 Kings 11:4 - And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.

2 Kings 11:5 - And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

2 Kings 11:7 - And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.

2 Kings 11:9 - And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

1 Chronicles 9:32 - And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

2 Chronicles 23:4 - This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;

2 Chronicles 23:8 - So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

2 Chronicles 31:3 - He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

Nehemiah 9:14 - And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

Nehemiah 10:31 - And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 10:33 - For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Nehemiah 13:15 - In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

Nehemiah 13:16 - There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13:17 - Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

Nehemiah 13:18 - Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

Nehemiah 13:19 - And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:21 - Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

Nehemiah 13:22 - And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

Psalms 92:1 - A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

Isaiah 1:13 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Isaiah 56:2 - 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.

Isaiah 56:4 - For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

Isaiah 56:6 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Isaiah 58:13 - 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, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Isaiah 66:23 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:21 - Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 17:22 - 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.

Jeremiah 17:24 - 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;

Jeremiah 17:27 - But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Lamentations 1:7 - Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Ezekiel 20:12 - 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.

Ezekiel 20:13 - But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:16 - Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:20 - 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.

Ezekiel 20:21 - Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:24 - Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 22:8 - Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22:26 - Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 23:38 - Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 44:24 - 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.

Ezekiel 46:1 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Ezekiel 46:3 - Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

Ezekiel 46:4 - And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

Ezekiel 46:12 - Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

Amos 8:5 - Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

Matthew 12:1 - At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

Matthew 12:2 - But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

Matthew 12:5 - Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless

Matthew 12:8 - For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Matthew 12:10 - And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

Matthew 12:11 - And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

Matthew 12:12 - How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Matthew 24:20 - But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Matthew 28:1 - In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.

Mark 1:21 - And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

Mark 2:23 - And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

Mark 2:24 - And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

Mark 2:27 - And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Mark 2:28 - Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Mark 3:2 - And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.

Mark 3:4 - And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

Mark 6:2 - And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?

Mark 15:42 - And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

Mark 16:1 - And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

Luke 4:16 - And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Luke 4:31 - And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

Luke 6:1 - And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

Luke 6:2 - And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days

Luke 6:5 - And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Luke 6:6 - And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.

Luke 6:7 - And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

Luke 6:9 - Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

Luke 13:10 - And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

Luke 13:14 - And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

Luke 13:15 - The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

Luke 13:16 - And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Luke 14:1 - And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

Luke 14:3 - And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

Luke 14:5 - And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

Luke 23:54 - And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

Luke 23:56 - And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

John 5:9 - And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

John 5:10 - The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

John 5:16 - And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

John 5:18 - Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

John 7:22 - Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

John 7:23 - If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

John 9:14 - And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

John 9:16 - Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

John 19:31 - The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Acts 1:12 - Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

Acts 13:14 - But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

Acts 13:27 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Acts 13:42 - And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

Acts 13:44 - And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

Acts 15:21 - For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Acts 16:13 - And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

Acts 17:2 - And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures,

Acts 18:4 - And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

Colossians 2:16 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Hebrews 4:4 - 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.

Revelation 1:10 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

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Verses Relating to the Feast Days  or Other Ceremonial Days Other than the 7th Day Sabbath:

Note that some, but not all, of the verses below have application to both the 7th day Sabbath and the feast or ceremonial Sabbaths. They are listed because they have the words "first day" included in them. When the author has time, he will go through and remove or else mark those not having to do with the actual first day of the week so you don't get confused by them. Meanwhile, you should check them for context to be certain that they actually apply to the first day.

Exodus 12:15 - Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16 - And in the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a 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.

Exodus 13:6 - Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

Exodus 23:11 - But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Exodus 23:12 - Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Leviticus 16:29 - And this shall be a statute forever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

Leviticus 16:31 - It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.

Leviticus 23:8 - But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Leviticus 23:11 - And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Leviticus 23:15 - And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

Leviticus 23:16 - Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:24 - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Leviticus 23:27 - Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:32 - 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.

Leviticus 23:34 - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:38 - Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:39 - Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

Leviticus 23:41 - And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Leviticus 25:2 - 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.

Leviticus 25:4 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

Leviticus 25:6 - 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,

Leviticus 25:8 - And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

Leviticus 25:9 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

Leviticus 25:20 - And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

Leviticus 26:34 - Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:35 - As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Leviticus 26:43 - The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

Numbers 28:9 - And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:

Numbers 28:10 - This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

Numbers 28:25 - And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

Numbers 29:1 - And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

Numbers 29:7 - And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:

Numbers 29:12 - And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:

Deuteronomy 16:8 - 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.

1 Chronicles 23:31 - And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:

2 Chronicles 2:4 - Behold, I build a house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

2 Chronicles 8:13 - Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

2 Chronicles 31:3 - He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 36:21 - To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.

Nehemiah 10:33 - For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Isaiah 1:13 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Lamentations 2:6 - And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Ezekiel 45:17 - And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 46:3 - Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

Hosea 2:11 - I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

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First Day of the Week Verses Listing:

Below are all verses in the New Testament containing the phrase "first day."  As you should be able to see by careful examination, none of these are an example of keeping holy the first day of the week, though in some instances they did hold worship services on that day of the week.  That does not make the day holy or a substitute for the 7th day Sabbath according to God's command.

Matthew 26:17 - Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

Matthew 28:1 - In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.

Mark 14:12 - And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?

Mark 16:2 - And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun.

Mark 16:9 - Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Luke 24:1 - Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

John 20:1 - The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher.

John 20:19 - Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

Acts 20:7 - And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

Acts 20:18 - And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,

1 Corinthians 16:2 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Philippians 1:5 - For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

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