"Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.

but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work---neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. Your slaves must rest just as you do.

At Mount Sinai you came down from heaven; you spoke to your people and gave them good laws and sound teachings.

You taught them to keep your Sabbaths holy, and through your servant Moses you gave them your laws.

The LORD says, "If you treat the Sabbath as sacred and do not pursue your own interests on that day; if you value my holy day and honor it by not traveling, working, or talking idly on that day,

I made the keeping of the Sabbath a sign of the agreement between us, to remind them that I, the LORD, make them holy.

Make the Sabbath a holy day, so that it will be a sign of the covenant we made, and will remind you that I am the LORD your God.

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you: What does our Law allow us to do on the Sabbath? To help or to harm? To save someone's life or destroy it?"

If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' Law is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

No one, then, should boast about what human beings can do. Actually everything belongs to you:

Paul, Apollos, and Peter; this world, life and death, the present and the future---all these are yours,

All this is for your sake; and as God's grace reaches more and more people, they will offer to the glory of God more prayers of thanksgiving.

So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.