Spiritual Growth & Disciplines

Should Christians keep the Sabbath? What does the New Testament teach?

The New Testament does not command Christians to keep the Sabbath as a binding law, but it does invite believers into deeper rest in Christ and encourages regular worship and life-giving rhythms of rest.

• Colossians 2:16–17 Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
• Hebrews 4:9–11 There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of…
• Mark 2:27–28 Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

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