19 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord.

Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If ye abide in my word, assuredly ye are my disciples;

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

Wherefore laying aside all vicious pollution, and the abundance of iniquity, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which hath power to save your souls.

born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the quickening word of God, and which abideth for ever.

Of his own choice he produced us by the word of truth, that we might be a sort of first fruit of his creatures.??19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.

And now, brethren, I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to finish the superstructure, and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

but have renounced all shameful secret practices, not conducting ourselves with artifice, nor deceitfully disguising the word of God, but by clear manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience as in the presence of God.

holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

For every one who useth milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness: for he is an infant.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him, who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; because thou hast but little strength, yet hast thou kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

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

But he answering said, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and his father's, and of the holy angels.

And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.