Luke 6:9
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9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life or to destroy it?”
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Luke 14:3
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3 And Jesus asked the experts in the law and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to cure people on the Sabbath or not?”(A)
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Mark 3:4
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4 Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.
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Matthew 12:12-13
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12 How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”(A) 13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and it was restored, as sound as the other.
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John 7:19-23
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19 “Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?”(A) 20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”(B) 21 Jesus answered them, “I performed one work, and all of you are astonished. 22 Because of this Moses gave you circumcision (it is, of course, not from Moses but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.(C) 23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath in order that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I healed a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?(D)
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Luke 9:56
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56 Then[a] they went on to another village.
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- 9.56 Other ancient authorities read rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what spirit you are of,
for the Son of Man has not come to destroy the lives of humans but to save them.” Then
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