Mark 2:27

New King James Version

And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Cross References

Exodus 23:12

Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.

Isaiah 58:13

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the Lord honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20:20

hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

Mark 2:28

Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

Luke 6:9

Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?”

John 7:23

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

2 Corinthians 4:15

For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound 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 the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Colossians 2:16

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,