Sabbath
practiceGod's command for weekly rest — a rhythm of trust, worship, and renewal.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
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Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”Colossians 3:15 →
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Anchor Scriptures 18 verses
“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.”
Read in context →“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:”
Read in context →“Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?”
Read in context →“Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.”
Read in context →“Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.”
Read in context →“And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:”
Read in context →“And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.”
Read in context →“And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.”
Read in context →“Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”
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