3 And again to lie against God, as if He forbad us to do any good thing on the sabbath day, is not this profane? (DIO)
Epistle to Diognetus 4:3
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Nehemiah 13:17–19
17 Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day? 18 Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath agains…
Matthew 12:4–6
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Epistle of Barnabas 15:5–7
5 And He rested on the seventh day. this He meaneth; when His Son shall come, and shall abolish the time of the Lawless One, and shall judge the ungodly, and shall change the sun and the moon and the stars, then shall he truly rest on the seventh day. (BRN) 6 Yea and fu… (BRN)
Exodus 31:13–15
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Romans 3:7–9
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