Mark 2:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Jesus said to them, The Sabbath was made on account and for the sake of man, not man for the Sabbath; [Exod. 23:12; Deut. 5:14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Then he said, “The Sabbath was created for humans; humans weren’t created for the Sabbath.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to them: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Mark 2:27 Cross References

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed.

Isaiah 58:13

“If you turn back your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.

Ezekiel 20:20

and hallow my sabbaths that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I the Lord am your God.

Mark 2:28

so the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.”

Luke 6:9

And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”

John 7:23

If on the sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the sabbath I made a man's whole body well?

2 Corinthians 4:15

For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

Deuteronomy 5:12

“ ‘Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath.