Mark 2:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ 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)

²⁷ And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Common English Bible

²⁷ Then he said, “The Sabbath was created for humans; humans weren’t created for the Sabbath.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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 thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Isaiah 58:13

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of the LORD honourable; and shalt honour it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Ezekiel 20:12

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.

Ezekiel 20:20

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

Mark 2:28

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

Luke 6:9

And Jesus said unto them, I ask you, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?

John 7:23

If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?

2 Corinthians 4:15

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

Deuteronomy 5:12

Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee.

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: