34 Bible Verses about The scriptures

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making the simple wise.

I beseech You, let Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to Your Word to Your servant.

DALETH: My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to Your Word.

VAU: Let Your mercies come to me, O Jehovah, even according to Your salvation, according to Your Word.

My soul weeps for grief; strengthen me according to Your Word.

TAU: Let my cry come near to You, O Jehovah; give me wisdom according to Your Word.

And he read in it before the street in front of the Water Gate from the morning until noon, in front of the men and the women, and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people listened to the Book of the Law.

Therefore you go, and read in the roll which you have written from my mouth, the Words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in Jehovah's house on the fasting day. And also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if you have any word of comfort for the people, speak.

when all Israel has come to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He shall choose, you shall read this Law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people, men and women and the little ones, and your stranger who is within your gates, so that they may hear and that they may learn and fear Jehovah your God, and be careful to do all the words of this Law, and that their sons who have not known may hear and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.

MEM: Oh how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day.

My soul has kept Your testimonies; and I love them very much.

SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love.

See how I love Your Commandments; O Jehovah, according to Your loving-kindness give me life.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life. And they are the ones witnessing of Me,

All the Prophets give witness to Him, that through His name whoever believes in Him shall receive remission of sins.

For he mightily confuted the Jews publicly, proving by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

HE: O Jehovah, teach me the way of Your Precepts, and I shall keep it to the end.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge; for I have believed Your Commandments.

Blessed are You, O Jehovah; teach me Your Precepts. With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth.

I went before the dawning of the morning and cried; I hoped in Your Word.

KAPH: My soul faints for Your salvation; I hope in Your Word.

They who fear You will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in Your Word.

Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.

The Words of Jehovah are pure Words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Your Word is very pure; therefore Your servant 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 to him, Go, Satan! For it is written, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve."

Jesus said to him, It is written again, "You shall not tempt the Lord your God."

But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night.

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my prayer.

My eyes go before the night watches, so that I might think on Your Word.

But He said, No; rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it.

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.

But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Men, brothers, this Scripture must have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who became guide to those who seized Jesus.

For prophecy was not borne at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke being borne along by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear His voice,

And in the third year of his reign he sent to his rulers, to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites. And with them he sent Elishama and Jehoram the priests. And they taught in Judah and had the book of the Law of Jehovah with them, and went around throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law. And the people were in their place. And they read in the Book of the Law of God, clearly. And they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart.

Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your hearts and in your souls, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, so that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.

And He answered and said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it.

I have revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your 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 the Scripture not said that Christ comes from the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

And have you not read this scripture "The Stone which the builders rejected has become the Head of the corner:

You shall not add to the Word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, so that you may keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I command you.

All the things I command you, be careful to do it. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, so that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.

And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments so that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come.

But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. read more.
These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And Your servant is warned by them; in keeping them there is great reward.

And all these things happened to them as examples; and it is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.

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

because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this Law, and these statutes, to do them,

Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read; not one of these shall fail, none shall lack its mate; for My mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.

I rejoice at Your Word, as one who finds great spoil.

And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which have been written in this Book.

Then I said, Lo, I come, in the volume of the Book it is written of Me;

For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them."

And he read in it before the street in front of the Water Gate from the morning until noon, in front of the men and the women, and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people listened to the Book of the Law.

And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall 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."

It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts,

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life;

and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

(which He had promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures),

desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;

Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.

that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.

This is my comfort in my affliction; for Your Word has given me life.

I will never forget Your Commandments; for with them You have given me life.

For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says Jehovah. But to this one I will look, to the afflicted and contrite spirit, and the one who trembles at My Word.

SHIN: Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in fear of Your Word.

that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

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

The Precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the Commandments of Jehovah are pure, giving light to the eyes.

I have taken Your testimonies as an inheritance forever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

ZAYIN: Remember the Word to Your servant, on which You have caused me to hope.

My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.

Your Word is true from the beginning; and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

For those living in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known this One, and the voices of the Prophets being read throughout every sabbath, condemning Him, they fulfilled the Scriptures.

Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Much, by every way! Chiefly, indeed, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart 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, No; rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it.

Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever.

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

And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so.

that this is a rebellious people, lying sons. They are sons who will not hear the Law of Jehovah;

But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night.

But He said, No; rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it.

But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.

And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.

Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them.

And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this Law, and these statutes, to do them, so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he does not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he may make his days longer in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received the Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed it as the Word of God, not as a word of men, but as it is, truly the Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe.

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life. And they are the ones witnessing of Me,

They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search the scriptures and see that a prophet has not been raised out of Galilee.

And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received the Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed it as the Word of God, not as a word of men, but as it is, truly the Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe.

For I testify together to everyone who hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add on him the plagues that have been written in this Book. And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which have been written in this Book.

For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly furnished to every good work.

And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, So says Jehovah: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause man and beast to cease from there? Therefore so says Jehovah of Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity. And I will bring on them, and on the people of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evils that I have spoken against them; but they did not listen.

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts, knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation. For prophecy was not borne at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke being borne along 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 babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

The entrance of Your Words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

I saw the traitors, and was grieved because they did not keep Your Word.

Order my steps in Your Word; and do not let any iniquity rule over me.

I saw the traitors, and was grieved because they did not keep Your Word.

NUN: Your Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.

How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!

My tongue shall speak Your Word, for all Your Commandments are righteousness.

But I will show you that which is written in the Scripture of Truth. And there is none who holds strongly with me in these things, but Michael your ruler.

Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read; not one of these shall fail, none shall lack its mate; for My mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.

For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).

The wise are ashamed, they are terrified, and are captured. Lo, they have turned away from the Word of Jehovah; and what wisdom is in them?

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

I have hidden Your Word in my heart, so that I might not sin against You.

I will delight myself in Your Precepts; I will not forget Your Word.

My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?

And I shall have something to answer him who mocks me; for I trust in Your Word.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation.

but now has been made plain, and by the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith;

And all the people gathered themselves as one man into the street before the water gate. And they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.

desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;

BETH: With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.

more to be desired than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

And He said to them, Do you do well to set aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your own tradition? For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother." And, "Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death." But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban! (that is, A gift to God, whatever you may profit by me) read more.
and you no longer allow him to do anything toward his father or mother, making the Word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have delivered. And you do many such things.

and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the Word, to which they also were appointed.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

Concerning the works of men, by the Words of Your lips, I am kept from the paths of the destroyer.

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

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making the simple wise.

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making the simple wise.

But these are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in His name.

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making the simple wise.

Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.

And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so.

But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

(which He had promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures),

And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so.

And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

Much, by every way! Chiefly, indeed, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Therefore when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night.