19 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.

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

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness, in humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

But we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained;

But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'"

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

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