Luke 6:9
Good News Translation
Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you: What does our Law allow us to do on the Sabbath? To help or to harm? To save someone's life or destroy it?"

New Revised Standard Version
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?”

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus asked, "On the Sabbath should we do good deeds or evil deeds? Should we save someone's life or destroy it?"

New American Bible
Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy?

Is it.

Luke 14:3 And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

Matthew 12:12,13 How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days. . . .

Mark 3:4 And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

John 7:19-23 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? . . .

to save.

Luke 9:56 The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they went into another town.

Context
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
8But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand: Arise and stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood forth. 9Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy? 10And looking round about on them all, he said to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth. And his hand was restored.…
Cross References
Luke 6:8
But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand: Arise and stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood forth.

Luke 6:10
And looking round about on them all, he said to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth. And his hand was restored.

Luke 6:8
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