27 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.

Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?

You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.

And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

I have knowledge of your works (see, I have put before you an open door which may be shut by no one), and that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have been true to my name.

And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept.

And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.

But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.

Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.

For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.