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   Christians must keep the seventh-day Sabbath. Sunday worship is a later change, and the fourth commandment still binds every person.

   Exodus 20 names the seventh day. The apostles meet on the first day of the week, Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow, and Justin describes Sunday assembly in the second century.

   • Exodus 20:8–11Exodus 20:8–11 · King James Version^20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ^20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ^20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ^20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.Exodus 20:8–11 · King James VersionOpen source
   • Colossians 2:16–17Colossians 2:16–17 · King James Version^2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: ^2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.Colossians 2:16–17 · King James VersionOpen source
   • Acts 20:7Acts 20:7 · King James VersionAnd upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.Acts 20:7 · King James VersionOpen source
   • Justin, First Apology 67

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