What Does the Bible Say About Happy Sunday?

Psalm 71:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.

Genesis 2:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 9:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

John 14:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Psalm 148:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.

Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Hebrews 4:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

Revelation 1:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. ...

Exodus 20:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Acts 20:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 9 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

1 John 3:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Isaiah 66:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Proverbs 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.

Acts 16:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

John 11:25-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Daniel 4:1-37 ESV / 5 helpful votes

King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation. I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me. ...

Ecclesiastes 11:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Leviticus 23:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Acts 18:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

Acts 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 4:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath,

Mark 2:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Colossians 2:14-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...

Romans 14:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

Acts 12:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Matthew 28:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

Daniel 8:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the citadel, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal. I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great. As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. ...

Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Acts 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? ...

Leviticus 23:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts. “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places. “These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord's Passover. ...

50 Bible Verses about Happy Sunday

Psalm 71:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 9:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 148:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 20:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1-51 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 66:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 16:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 11:25-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 4:1-37 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 11:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 23:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 18:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 2:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:14-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 12:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 8:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 23:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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