New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath;

Contemporary English Version
Jesus finished by saying, "People were not made for the good of the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for the good of people.

New American Bible
Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Exodus 23:12 Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.

Deuteronomy 5:14 The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.

Nehemiah 9:13,14 Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts. . . .

Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Ezekiel 20:12,20 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. . . .

Luke 6:9 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?

John 7:23 If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?

1 Corinthians 3:21,22 Let no man therefore glory in men. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,