34 Bible Verses about The scriptures

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Let, I pray thee, thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy spoken word unto thy slave.

DALETH. My soul cleaves unto the dust; quicken me according to thy word.

VAU. Let thy mercy come unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy spoken word.

My soul melts for heaviness; strengthen me according to thy word.

TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to thy word.

And he read in the book before the plaza that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

therefore go thou, and read from the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the day of fasting: and also in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. Thou shalt read them

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the princes of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men and women and children and thy strangers that are within thy gates, that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the LORD your God and observe to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known any thing, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God all the days that ye live in the land unto which ye are to pass the Jordan to inherit it.

MEM. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

My soul has kept thy testimonies, and I have loved them exceedingly.

SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts; but I love thy law.

Consider, O LORD, that I love thy precepts; cause me to live according to thy mercy.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures

Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are those who testify of me.

Unto him all the prophets give witness, that whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins through his name.

for he mightily convinced the Jews in public, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

and thou shalt repeat them diligently unto thy sons and shalt talk of them being in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up;

And ye shall teach them to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up.

and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end.

which teaches me discernment and knowledge, for I have believed thy commandments.

Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. With my lips I have declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

I arose before the dawning of the morning and cried: I waited in thy word.

CAPH. My soul faints with desire for thy salvation as I await thy word.

Those that fear thee will be glad when they see me because I have waited on thy word.

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto those that put their trust in him.

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Thy word is very pure; therefore thy slave loves it.

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

Then Jesus said unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies have been my meditation.

My eyes anticipate the night watches that I might meditate in thy spoken word.

But he said, Rather, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

Therefore, whosoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him unto a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who was guide to those that took Jesus.

For the prophecy did not come in times past by the will of man, but the holy men of God spoke being inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, Today if ye will hear his voice,

Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, Benhail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethaneel, and Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites, and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. And they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the LORD with them and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah, Levites, caused the people to be silent that they might understand the law; and the people were in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God clearly and paid attention, and understood the reading.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart,

Therefore, ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

Before I was humbled, I went into error, but now I keep thy spoken word.

And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou didst give me out of the world; thine they were, and thou didst give them me; and they have kept thy word.

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

Has not the scripture said, That the Christ comes of the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?

And have ye not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected is placed as the head of the corner;

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish anything from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Keep thyself, and do all that I command you; thou shalt not add to it nor diminish from it.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and rights, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do thus in the midst of the land where ye are about to enter in to possess it.

And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you the statutes and rights that ye might do them in the land which ye are about to enter to possess.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will cause you to know the things which are to come.

But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that God has given us. read more.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but with doctrine of the Holy Spirit, jointly fitting spiritual things by spiritual means. But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Moreover by them is thy slave warned, and in keeping them there is great reward.

Now all these things happened unto them as types, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

that, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

for it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

and it shall be near unto him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them,

Seek ye out that which is written in the book of the LORD and read; if one of these is lacking, none is missing with his mate, for his mouth has commanded it, and his same Spirit has gathered them.

Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O LORD God of the hosts.

I rejoice at thy spoken word, as one that finds great spoil.

and if anyone shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.

Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me,

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

And he read in the book before the plaza that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

And he afflicted thee and caused thee to hunger and sustained thee with manna, food of which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD shall man live.

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

The Spirit is he that gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken unto you, they are Spirit and they are life.

who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

We have also the most sure word of the prophets, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,

For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,

and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

(which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures)

as newborn babes, desire the rational milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby in health;

So then, leave all uncleanness and remains of malice and receive with meekness the word ingested within you, which is able to cause your souls to be saved. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if anyone hears the word and does not put it into practice, this same is like unto the man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

that he might sanctify and cleanse her in the washing of water by the word,

Sanctify them in thy truth; thy word is the truth.

This is my comfort in my affliction; for thy spoken word has caused me to live.

I will never forget thy precepts; for with them thou hast caused me to live.

For all these things my hand has made, by my hand has these things been, said the LORD; but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembles at my word.

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.

that he might sanctify and cleanse her in the washing of water by the word,

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy slave, in which thou hast caused me to wait.

Mine eyes fail for thy spoken word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

Sanctify them in thy truth; thy word is the truth.

The beginning of thy word is truth, and every one of the judgments of thy righteousness is eternal.

For those that dwell at Jerusalem and their princes, because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets who are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Then Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

Much in every way: first, certainly, that the oracles of God have been entrusted unto them.

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, let them do it according to the virtue which God gives, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus, the Christ, unto whom is glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

For the word of God is alive and efficient and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

But he said, Rather, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

He, of his own will, has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.

being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all diligence and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

That this is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that did not desire to hear the law of the LORD:

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.

But he said, Rather, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

But whosoever has looked attentively into the perfect law of liberty and has persevered in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, the same shall be blessed in their deed.

And he said unto him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.

Abraham said unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

and it shall be near unto him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them, that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received it not as the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are those who testify of me.

They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and see, for a prophet has never arisen out of Galilee.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received it not as the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

For I testify unto everyone that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If anyone shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.

For we are not as many, false merchandisers of the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but with doctrine of the Holy Spirit, jointly fitting spiritual things by spiritual means.

but remove from ourselves every hidden shameful thing, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but in the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus hath the LORD said: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land and shall cause to cease from there man and beast? Therefore thus hath the LORD said unto Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David; and his body shall be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost. And I will visit upon him and upon his seed and upon his slaves, their iniquity; and I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the men of Judah all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they did not hearken.

Let the word of the Christ dwell in you in abundance in all wisdom, teaching you and exhorting you one to another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with grace singing in your hearts unto the Lord.

and thou shalt repeat them diligently unto thy sons and shalt talk of them being in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up;

Let the word of the Christ dwell in you in abundance in all wisdom, teaching you and exhorting you one to another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with grace singing in your hearts unto the Lord.

We have also the most sure word of the prophets, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts, understanding this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy did not come in times past by the will of man, but the holy men of God spoke being inspired by the Holy Spirit.

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

The exposition of thy words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple.

I beheld the transgressors and was grieved because they did not keep thy words.

Order my steps with thy word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

I beheld the transgressors and was grieved because they did not keep thy words.

NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my way.

How sweet have been thy spoken words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

My tongue shall speak thy words; for all thy commandments are righteousness.

But I will interpret unto thee that which is written in the scripture of truth: and there is no one that holds with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

Seek ye out that which is written in the book of the LORD and read; if one of these is lacking, none is missing with his mate, for his mouth has commanded it, and his same Spirit has gathered them.

For the word of God is alive and efficient and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

in almost all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, among which are some things that are hard to understand, which those that are ignorant and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, let them do it according to the virtue which God gives, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus, the Christ, unto whom is glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Thy spoken word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.

I will delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy words.

Mine eyes fail for thy spoken word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

And I shall answer him that reproaches me, by saying that I trust in thy word.

understanding this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

but now is made manifest, and by the writings of the prophets, by the commandment of God eternal, declared unto all the Gentiles, that they might hear and obey by faith,

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the plaza that was before the water gate, and they spoke unto Ezra, the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

as newborn babes, desire the rational milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby in health;

BETH. With what shall a young man cleanse his way? when he shall keep thy word.

More to be desired are they than gold, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

And he also said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother, and, Whosoever curses father or mother shall most definitely die. But ye say, It is enough if a man shall say to his father or mother, It is all Corban, (that is to say, my gift to God) whatever with which thou mightest be profited by me. read more.
And ye suffer him to do no more for his father or for his mother, invalidating the word of God with your tradition, which ye have given; and many such like things do ye.

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even to those who stumble at the word, not obeying in that for which they were ordained.

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

He, of his own will, has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have observed the ways of the violent.

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

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

So then, leave all uncleanness and remains of malice and receive with meekness the word ingested within you, which is able to cause your souls to be saved.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all diligence and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

(which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures)

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all diligence and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Then he opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures

Much in every way: first, certainly, that the oracles of God have been entrusted unto them.

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded this unto them in all the scriptures concerning himself.

Therefore when he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.