Bible Verses About Working on the Sabbath
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for working on the sabbath, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,300 votes, led by Exodus 35:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Working on the Sabbath
Exodus 35:2173 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.
Matthew 12:11-12109 votes
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?
Exodus 20:1085 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 20:8-1184 votes
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Mark 2:27-2881 votes
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Colossians 2:1671 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 23:370 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 35:362 votes
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Mark 2:2760 votes
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Genesis 2:358 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 58:13-1456 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 12:9-1454 votes
And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
John 5:1854 votes
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.
Colossians 2:16-1752 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:
Matthew 12:550 votes
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?
Mark 2:23-2850 votes
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 2:2349 votes
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.
Luke 13:10-1749 votes
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:15-2248 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.
Matthew 12:1245 votes
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Luke 4:1645 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.
Isaiah 58:1344 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:
Numbers 15:32-3643 votes
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Exodus 31:1441 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.
Romans 14:541 votes
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
What does the Bible say about working on the sabbath?
Readers most often cite Exodus 35:2 on the subject of working on the sabbath. Across 3,300 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 12:11-12, Exodus 20:10, 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.