Isaiah 58:13

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

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

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither 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.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

“Six 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.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

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

The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

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

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’ ”

“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

“ ‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

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

Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”