Bible Verses About The Sabbath Day
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the sabbath day, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 13,294 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 The Sabbath Day
Exodus 20:8-11703 votes
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Mark 2:27632 votes
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Leviticus 23:3513 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 2:3461 votes
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.
Isaiah 58:13425 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:
Hebrews 4:9341 votes
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Exodus 20:8313 votes
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Matthew 5:17-19265 votes
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Ezekiel 20:12-24263 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.
Isaiah 58:13-14254 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:
Luke 4:16240 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.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15233 votes
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
Luke 23:56221 votes
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Colossians 2:16-17217 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:
Acts 18:4216 votes
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
Ezekiel 20:12215 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.
Nehemiah 13:15-22183 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.
Genesis 2:2-3174 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.
Matthew 12:12174 votes
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Acts 17:2165 votes
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Exodus 31:14164 votes
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.
Mark 2:28164 votes
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Isaiah 66:22-23161 votes
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Exodus 31:17153 votes
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Acts 16:13153 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.
What does the Bible say about the sabbath day?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:8-11 on the subject of the sabbath day. Across 13,294 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Mark 2:27, Leviticus 23:3, Genesis 2:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.