Bible Verses About Sabbath Day
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sabbath day, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,966 votes, led by Exodus 20:8-11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sabbath Day
Exodus 20:8-11361 votes
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Isaiah 58:13-14258 votes
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, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Colossians 2:16-17199 votes
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Leviticus 23:3194 votes
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
Genesis 2:2-3179 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15157 votes
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
Mark 2:27150 votes
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mark 2:27-28139 votes
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Luke 4:16137 votes
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.
Hebrews 4:9-10133 votes
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Exodus 31:13-17107 votes
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 16:23-3099 votes
And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Acts 16:1387 votes
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.
Luke 13:10-1785 votes
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
Acts 13:1482 votes
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 17:281 votes
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Ezekiel 20:1276 votes
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.
Matthew 28:174 votes
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 sepulchre.
Matthew 12:1-873 votes
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Nehemiah 13:15-2266 votes
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.
Hebrews 4:966 votes
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Luke 23:5663 votes
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Matthew 5:17-1962 votes
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Hebrews 4:1-1662 votes
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Mark 2:2861 votes
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
What does the Bible say about sabbath day?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:8-11 on the subject of sabbath day. Across 4,966 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 58:13-14, Colossians 2:16-17, Leviticus 23:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.