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Mark 2:27

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27He said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

KJV

27And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

BSB

27Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

FBV

27The Sabbath was made for your benefit, not for you to benefit the Sabbath,” he told them.

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Extra References

Colossians 2:16

16Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,


Luke 6:9

9Then Jesus said to them, I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”


Deuteronomy 5:14

14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, in which you shall not do any workneither 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 livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.


Ezekiel 20:12

12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.


Isaiah 58:13

13“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of the LORD honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,


Ezekiel 20:20

20Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’


Exodus 23:12

12Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.


John 7:23

23If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?


Nehemiah 9:13-14

13You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,


2 Corinthians 4:15

15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.