Bible Verses About The Seventh Day
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the seventh day, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,387 votes, led by Genesis 2:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about The Seventh Day
Genesis 2:2108 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.
Exodus 31:1792 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.
Genesis 2:391 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.
Exodus 20:8-1181 votes
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Hebrews 4:479 votes
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.
Exodus 20:866 votes
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus 20:1165 votes
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.
Genesis 2:2-360 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.
Leviticus 23:359 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.
Exodus 35:258 votes
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
Exodus 31:1556 votes
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 23:1252 votes
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.
Genesis 1:1-3147 votes
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Exodus 34:2146 votes
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Genesis 2:1-343 votes
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Exodus 20:1043 votes
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 20:9-1139 votes
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Acts 20:739 votes
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.
Revelation 1:1039 votes
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Exodus 16:22-3038 votes
And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
Isaiah 58:1338 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:
Matthew 28:138 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.
Luke 4:1638 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.
Acts 17:237 votes
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Hebrews 4:935 votes
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
What does the Bible say about the seventh day?
Readers most often cite Genesis 2:2 on the subject of the seventh day. Across 3,387 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 31:17, Genesis 2:3, Exodus 20:8-11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.