19 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, by teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with gratitude in your hearts to the Lord.

Then said Jesus to those Jews that believed on him: If you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed,

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you.

Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness, and every excess caused by malice, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

having been begotten again, not with corruptible seed, but with incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.

Of his own will, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we might be, as it were, the first-fruits of his creatures.

For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace; to Him who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Strive to present yourself to God as approved, a workman that has no cause to be ashamed, rightly setting forth the word of truth.

Now are you pure, through the word which I have spoken to you.

but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

For every one that partakes of milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door that no one is able to shut, because you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had borne:

But he answered and said: It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in his own glory; and that of the Father, and of the holy angels.

And his word you have not remaining in you; for whom he has sent, him you believe not.