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Mark 2:27

Rest and sabbathThe law

25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

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

28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
KJV
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
WEB
He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
ASV
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
DARBY
And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath;
BLB
And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made on account of the man, and not the man on account of the Sabbath.
ÅB
Og han sa til dem: Sabbaten ble til for menneskets skyld, og ikke mennesket for sabbatens skyld.
OTB
Til slutt svarte han: "Sabbaten ble skapt for mennesket, ikke mennesket for sabbaten.
B1930
Og han sa til dem: Sabbaten blev til for menneskets skyld, og ikke mennesket for sabbatens skyld.

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  • Colossians 2:16

    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:

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  • Luke 6:9

    Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

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  • Deuteronomy 5:14

    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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

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  • Ezekiel 20:12

    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.

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  • Isaiah 58:13

    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:

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  • Ezekiel 20:20

    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.

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  • Exodus 23:12

    Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

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  • John 7:23

    If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

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