Bible Verses About Sabbath Rest
Honoring God’s holy rhythm of rest.
The Sabbath is not merely a day off, but a sacred boundary set by God for our spiritual and physical well-being. By intentionally setting apart time to cease from our labors, we acknowledge His sovereignty and find a deeper rest that restores the soul. It is a foretaste of the eternal peace we will one day experience in His presence. Trust that as you honor this rhythm, He will multiply your strength for the week ahead.
Key Passages
"¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD."
"¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God."
"Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you."
"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
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"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
"Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:"
"But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:"
"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
"And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."
"It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."
"Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings."
"Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee."
"And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day."
"Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil."
"¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:"
"Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."
"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."
"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."
"For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day."
"And he said unto them,The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:"
"Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath."
"And he said unto them,That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath."
"For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works."
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."
"For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his."
"And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning."
"So the people rested on the seventh day."
"But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard."
"Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?"
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