27 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.

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

By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His creatures.

This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers.

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

House of Jacob, should it be asked,
“Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?
Are these the things He does?”
Don’t My words bring good
to the one who walks uprightly?

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

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.

I have written to you, children,
because you have come to know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the One who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
because you are strong,
God’s word remains in you,
and you have had victory over the evil one.

I know your works. Because you have limited strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name, look, I have placed before you an open door that no one is able to close.

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.

He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

But He answered, “It is written:

Man must not live on bread alone
but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God.”

Your words were found, and I ate them.
Your words became a delight to me
and the joy of my heart,
for I am called by Your name,
Yahweh God of Hosts.

The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me,
His word was on my tongue.

The boy Samuel served the Lord in Eli’s presence. In those days the word of the Lord was rare and prophetic visions were not widespread.

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and that of the Father and the holy angels.

You don’t have His word living in you, because you don’t believe the One He sent.

Hear this! The days are coming—
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.

People will stagger from sea to sea
and roam from north to east,
seeking the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.