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Luk 6:9 — Then said Jesus unto 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]?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Is it		Luk 14:3; Mat 12:12,13; Mar 3:4; Jhn 7:19-23
to save		Luk 9:56

Correlating Passages

Is it

	Luk 14:3	And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
	Mat 12:12	How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
	Mat 12:13	Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
	Mar 3:4	And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
	Jhn 7:19	Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
	Jhn 7:20	The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
	Jhn 7:21	Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
	Jhn 7:22	Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
	Jhn 7:23	If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

to save

Luk 9:56

For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save [them]. And they went to another village.

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Scott, Thomas. "Luke 6:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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