Isaiah 56:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who takes hold of it; who keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

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  • Isa 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, the holy day of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
  • Jer 17:21-22 : 21 Thus says the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work, but hallow the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 Moreover I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
  • Ezek 20:20 : 20 And hallow my sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
  • Exod 31:13-16 : 13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.
  • John 13:17 : 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
  • Exod 20:8 : 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  • Exod 20:10 : 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
  • Ps 119:1-5 : 1 ALEPH. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, and who seek Him with their whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways. 4 You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently. 5 Oh that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes!
  • Ps 119:101 : 101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word.
  • Ps 128:1 : 1 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in His ways.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.
  • Prov 4:27 : 27 Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 A wise man fears and departs from evil, but the fool rages and is confident.
  • Prov 16:6 : 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.
  • Prov 16:17 : 17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he who keeps his way preserves his soul.
  • Eccl 7:18 : 18 It is good that you should take hold of this, and also from this do not withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will escape them all.
  • Isa 56:4 : 4 For thus says the LORD to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
  • Isa 56:6 : 6 Also the sons of the foreigner, who join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold of my covenant;
  • Lev 19:30 : 30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Neh 13:17 : 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?
  • Ps 1:1-3 : 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.
  • Ps 15:1-5 : 1 LORD, who shall abide in Your tabernacle? Who shall dwell on Your holy hill? 2 He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. 3 He who does not slander with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor take up a reproach against his neighbor. 4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt, and does not change. 5 He who does not put out his money at usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
  • Ps 34:14 : 14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
  • Ps 37:27 : 27 Depart from evil and do good, and live forevermore.
  • Ps 106:3 : 3 Blessed are they who keep judgment and he who does righteousness at all times.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cling to that which is good.
  • Luke 12:43 : 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find so doing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 58:13
    77%

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

  • Jer 17:24
    74%

    24And it shall come to pass, if you diligently listen to me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

  • Isa 56:6
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    6Also the sons of the foreigner, who join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold of my covenant;

  • Deut 5:12
    73%

    12Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    73%

    8Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    10but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.

    11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

  • Isa 56:1
    73%

    1Thus says the LORD, Keep judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

  • Exod 31:13-16
    4 verses
    72%

    13Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

    14You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

    16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

  • Isa 56:4
    72%

    4For thus says the LORD to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

  • Ps 112:1
    72%

    1Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

  • Jer 17:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Thus says the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

    22Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work, but hallow the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

  • Ps 106:3
    71%

    3Blessed are they who keep judgment and he who does righteousness at all times.

  • Matt 12:8
    71%

    8For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.

  • Ps 40:4
    71%

    4Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

  • Ps 24:4-5
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    71%

    4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to idols, nor sworn deceitfully.

    5He shall receive blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

  • Isa 33:15
    71%

    15He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

  • Mark 2:28
    71%

    28Therefore, the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.

  • Ezek 22:8
    70%

    8You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

  • Lev 26:2
    70%

    2You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 18:5
    70%

    5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • Jer 48:10
    70%

    10Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

  • Neh 13:18
    70%

    18Did not your fathers do this, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.

  • Deut 5:14
    70%

    14But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, 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 cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

  • Ps 1:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

    2But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.

  • Lev 19:30
    70%

    30You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Prov 19:16
    70%

    16He who keeps the commandment keeps his own soul, but he who despises his ways shall die.

  • Luke 6:5
    70%

    5And he said to them, The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.

  • Jas 1:25
    70%

    25But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

  • Matt 12:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

    11And he said to them, What man among you, who has one sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, will not lay hold of it, and lift it out?

    12How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep? Therefore, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath days.

  • Lev 23:3
    69%

    3Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work in it; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 35:2
    69%

    2Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

  • Eccl 7:18
    69%

    18It is good that you should take hold of this, and also from this do not withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will escape them all.

  • Luke 11:28
    69%

    28But he said, On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.

  • Lev 23:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29For any person who does not afflict himself on that same day shall be cut off from among his people.

    30And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

  • Job 17:9
    69%

    9The righteous also shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

  • Ps 128:4
    69%

    4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

  • Num 15:32
    68%

    32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

  • Luke 6:9
    68%

    9Then said Jesus to 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?

  • Ezek 18:14
    68%

    14Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,