Isaiah 56:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds to this, keeping the Sabbath and not profaning it, guarding his hands and not doing any evil.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:17

And I put the nobles of Judah under oath, and I said to them: "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?

Psalm 106:3

from the rising of the sun and its setting, from the north and from the sea.

Psalm 112:1

Alleluia. Praise the Lord, children. Praise the name of the Lord.

Psalm 128:1

A Canticle in steps. They have often fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say:

Psalm 34:14

Like a neighbor, and like our brother, so did I please; like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.

Exodus 20:10

But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it: you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, your beast and the newcomer who is within your gates.

Exodus 20:8

Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath.

Proverbs 14:16

The wise fear, and so turn away from evil. The foolish leap ahead with confidence.

Proverbs 16:17

The path of the just turns away from evils. He who guards his soul preserves his way.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth, iniquity is redeemed. And by the fear of the Lord, one turns away from evil.

Proverbs 4:13

Take hold of discipline. Do not dismiss it. Guard it, for it is your life.

Proverbs 4:27

Turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left; yet turn your foot away from evil. For the Lord knows the ways that are on the right, and truly, those that are on the left are perverse. But he himself will make your courses straight. Then your journey will advance in peace.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

Do not act with great impiety, and do not choose to be foolish, lest you die before your time.

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord to the eunuchs: They will keep my Sabbaths, and they will choose the things that I will, and they will hold to my covenant.

Isaiah 56:6

And the sons of the new arrival, who adhere to the Lord so as to worship him and to love his name, shall be his servants: all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it, and who hold to my covenant.

Isaiah 58:13

If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover, I also gave to them my Sabbaths, so that these would be a sign between me and them, and so that they would know that I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20:20

And sanctify my Sabbaths, so that these may be a sign between me and you, and so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.'

Leviticus 19:30

Observe my Sabbaths, and be apprehensive toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Luke 11:28

Then he said, "Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it."

Luke 12:43

Blessed is that servant if, when his Lord will return, he will find him acting in this manner.

John 13:17

If you understand this, you shall be blessed if you will do it.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb. So may they have a right to the tree of life; so may they enter through the gates into the City.