19 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.

For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.

Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

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

Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

I know your works. Lo, I have set before you an open door, which none can shut; for though you have only a little strength, you have kept my word, and have 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 bore.

Jesus answered him, "It is written, Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."

"For whoever is ashamed of me and of my teachings, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his own and in his Father's glory, and in that of the holy angels.

nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.