Sabbath, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• John 20:26 NT

  After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

• Acts 20:7 NT

  On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

• 1 Corinthians 16:2 NT

  On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

• Nehemiah 13:22 OT

  I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

• Psalms 118:24 OT

  This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

• Nehemiah 13:15 OT

  In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I…

• Nehemiah 13:20 OT

  So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice.

• Nehemiah 13:21 OT

  Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.

• Exodus 31:16 OT

  Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

• Matthew 5:17 NT

  “Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

• Matthew 5:18 NT

  For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

• Isaiah 58:14 OT

  then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

• Isaiah 56:2 OT

  Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

• Isaiah 56:6 OT

  Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

• Nehemiah 13:18 OT

  Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

• Jeremiah 17:27 OT

  But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will…

• Exodus 31:14 OT

  You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

• Numbers 15:32-36 OT

  While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because…

• Lamentations 1:7 OT

  Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked…

• Ezekiel 20:13 OT

  “ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour…

• Ezekiel 20:16 OT

  because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

• Nehemiah 13:17 OT

  Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

• Ezekiel 22:8 OT

  You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

• Amos 8:5 OT

  Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;