34 Bible Verses about The scriptures

The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.

O may your loving kindness comfort me as you promise in your word.

I cleave to the dust. Revive me according to your word (as you promised).

May your loving kindnesses also come to me, O Jehovah, your salvation according to your promise.

I weep because of grief; strengthen me according to your word (as you promised).

Let my cry come before you, O Jehovah. Give me understanding according to your word.

He read it in the wide place in front of the Water Gate from early morning till the middle of the day. Everyone who could understand it, men and women alike were able to listen to it. All the people got to hear the Book of the Law.

On a day of fasting, you must read from the scroll Jehovah's message that you wrote as I dictated. You must read it to the people in Jehovah's Temple. You must also read it to all the people of Judah when they come from their cities.

After the public reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying: You men and brothers if you have a message of encouragement for the people speak.

when all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this Law in front of all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town. Assemble them that they may hear and learn and respect Jehovah your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this Law. Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to respect Jehovah your God, as long as you live on the land you will possess when you cross the Jordan River.

O How I love your law! It is my meditation all day long.

I obey your laws and love them exceedingly.

I hate those who are double-minded, but I love your law.

Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, O Jehovah, according to your loving kindness.

First of all, I delivered to you what I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

You search (investigate) (study) the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life. These Scriptures testify about me.

All the prophets testify that through his name whoever believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins.

He powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of your statutes, and I shall observe it to the end.

Teach me goodness, discernment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

You are blessed O Jehovah. Teach me your statutes. With my lips I have told of all the ordinances of your mouth.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I wait for your words.

I long for your salvation. I wait for your word.

May those who fear you see me and be glad, for I wait for your word.

Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who trust him.

The words of Jehovah are pure, like silver refined in a furnace on the earth and purified seven times.

Your word is very pure. Your servant loves it.

In reply Jesus answered: It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all (everything) (every word) (every utterance) (every declaration) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)

Go away, Satan! demanded Jesus. It is written, It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.' (Deuteronomy 6:13-15)

Again it is written, Jesus replied, 'you must not put Jehovah your God to the test.' (Deuteronomy 6:16)

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah (YHWH), and on his law he meditates (ponders) (speaks softly with deep thought) (studies) (contemplates) day and night.

I have more insight than all my teachers, for your laws are my meditation.

My eyes anticipate the night watches that I may meditate on your word.

He replied: More blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.

Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.

Brothers, the Scripture needed to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who guided those who arrested Jesus.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man! Men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit says: Today if you will hear his voice,

In the third year of his reign he sent out the following officials to teach in the cities of Judah: Benhail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah. With them were the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, Tob Adonijah, and the priests Elishama and Jehoram. They taught in Judah. They had the Book of Torah (the Law) (Jehovah's Teachings) with them when they taught the people in all the cities of Judah.

And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places. They read from the book the Law of God making it clear (translating it), so that their minds were able to take it in.

These words that I command you this day must be in your heart.

Take these words of mine to heart and keep them in mind. Write them down, tie them around your wrist, and wear them as headbands to remind you.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

He answered, My mother and my brother are these who hear the word of God, and do it.

I taught your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them to me. They have lived by your word.

In reply Jesus answered: It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all (everything) (every word) (every utterance) (every declaration) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)

Do the Scriptures say that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

Have you not read this Scripture: 'The stone the builders rejected was made the chief corner stone.' (Psalm 118:22, 23)

He is your God. I am telling you everything he has commanded. So do not add anything or take anything away.

Be careful to do what I command you. Do not add to it nor take away from it.

I have taught you laws and rules as Jehovah my God commanded me. You must obey them when you enter the land and take possession of it.

Jehovah told me to teach you all the laws that you are to obey in the land that you are about to invade and occupy.

When the Spirit of truth comes it will guide you to all truth for it will not speak from itself. It will speak the things it hears and declare to you the things that are to come.

But God revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit investigates (searches) all things, yes even the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, except the mental disposition that is in man? Even so no one knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God. This is so we might know the things that are freely given to us from God. read more.
We speak these things, not in the words that man's wisdom teaches. But we speak them with the words the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

They warn your servant. There is a great reward in following them.

These things happened for examples, and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

Let it be as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in Jehovah! (Jeremiah 9:24)

Because it is written: You shall be holy for I am holy.

He should keep it with him. He should read from it all the days of his life. In this way he will learn to respect Jehovah his God by carefully observing all the words of this Law and these statutes.

Search Jehovah's book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together.

You spoke to me, and I listened to every word. I belong to you, Lord Jehovah. Your words filled my heart with joy and happiness.

I rejoice at your word as one who finds great treasure.

If any man 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 that are written in this book.

Then I said: Here I come! In the scroll of the book it is written about me. (Luke 3:21)

Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.

He read it in the wide place in front of the Water Gate from early morning till the middle of the day. Everyone who could understand it, men and women alike were able to listen to it. All the people got to hear the Book of the Law.

He humbled you (allowed you to suffer) with hunger and then fed you with manna. Neither you nor your fathers had seen this before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but must live on all (everything) (every word) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.

In reply Jesus answered: It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all (everything) (every word) (every utterance) (every declaration) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)

It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I spoke to you are spirit and life.

He also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

We have the word of prophecy made sure (steadfast) (firm)! You do well that you pay attention [to God's Word] as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts.

For the commandment is a lamp. The law is light. Reproofs for instruction are the way of life.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

He promised this long ago through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.

Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.

Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you. Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror.

This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.

Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth.

This is my comfort in my affliction: That your word has revived me.

I will never forget your precepts. By them you have revived me.

I have made all these things. That is why all these things have come into being, declares Jehovah. I will pay attention to those who are humble and sorry for their sins and who tremble at my word.

Powerful people persecute me without cause. Yet my heart stands in awe of your words.

This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.

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

The statutes of Jehovah are correct. They make the heart rejoice. The commandments of Jehovah are radiant. They make the eyes shine.

I have inherited your laws forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

Remember the word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.

My eyes fail with longing for your word, while I say: When will you comfort me?

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth.

Your word is truth from the very beginning! Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not know Jesus. They fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath when they condemned Jesus.

Jesus answered: You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

Much in every way. First they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

If any man speaks, speak as it were utterances of God. If any man ministers, minister with the strength which God supplies! May God be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. The glory and dominion belong to God forever and ever. Amen.

The Word of God is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. (Ephesians 6:17) It separates the physical person from the spiritual person, of both joints and marrow. And it can discern (judge) the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (John 12:48)

He replied: More blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.

Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.

They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people do not speak these words, it is because there is no light (truth) in them.

The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

These people are rebellious and deceitful children. They refuse to listen to Jehovah's Law.

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah (YHWH), and on his law he meditates (ponders) (speaks softly with deep thought) (studies) (contemplates) day and night.

He replied: More blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.

But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Abraham said: If they would not listen to Moses and the prophets, they would not listen to someone from the dead.

Abraham said: Your brothers have Moses and the prophets to warn them. They should listen to them.

He should keep it with him. He should read from it all the days of his life. In this way he will learn to respect Jehovah his God by carefully observing all the words of this Law and these statutes. He must not think he is better than the rest of his people. He will not disobey these commandments in any way. So he and his sons will rule for a long time in Israel.

For this purpose we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

You search (investigate) (study) the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life. These Scriptures testify about me.

They replied: Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

For this purpose we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book. If any man 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 that are written in this book.

For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but sincere and from God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.

We speak these things, not in the words that man's wisdom teaches. But we speak them with the words the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed) Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.

Say about King Jehoiakim of Judah: 'This is what Jehovah says: You burned this scroll, and you asked Jeremiah: Why did you write that the king of Babylon would certainly come to destroy this land and take away people and animals?' This is what Jehovah says about King Jehoiakim of Judah: 'He will have no one to sit on David's throne, and his own corpse will be thrown out and exposed to the heat of day and the cold of night. 'I will punish him, his descendants, and his attendants for their wickedness. They refused to listen. So I will bring on them, on those who live in Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disasters that I have threatened.''

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

We have the word of prophecy made sure (steadfast) (firm)! You do well that you pay attention [to God's Word] as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts. Know this first that no prophecy of scripture is for private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man! Men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed)

The unfolding of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

I behold the treacherous and loathe because they do not keep your word.

Establish my footsteps in your word, and do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

I behold the treacherous and loathe because they do not keep your word.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

How sweet are your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Let my tongue sing of your word. For all your commandments are righteousness.

But I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one standing firmly with me against these, but Michael your prince.

Search Jehovah's book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together.

The Word of God is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. (Ephesians 6:17) It separates the physical person from the spiritual person, of both joints and marrow. And it can discern (judge) the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (John 12:48)

He spoke about these things in his letters. Some things are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable distort them as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.

If any man speaks, speak as it were utterances of God. If any man ministers, minister with the strength which God supplies! May God be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. The glory and dominion belong to God forever and ever. Amen.

Your word I have treasured in my heart that I may not sin against you.

I shall delight in your statutes. I shall not forget your word!

My eyes fail with longing for your word, while I say: When will you comfort me?

I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

Know this first that no prophecy of scripture is for private interpretation.

It is now made known by the Scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God. It is made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.

When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. All the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the Water Gate. They requested Ezra the scribe that he would bring them the book of the Law of Moses that Jehovah gave to Israel.

Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to your word.

They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.

You totally reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition. Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.' But you say: 'If a man says to his father or his mother that which would benefit you is a gift to God, read more.
he no longer has to do anything for his father or mother.' You make the word of God invalid by your tradition.

It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed.

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

I have avoided cruelty because of your word regardless of what others have done.

Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace. This is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.

The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.

These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.

The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.

Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.

The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.

He promised this long ago through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.

The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

He opened their minds that they might understand the scriptures.

Much in every way. First they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

He explained to them all the Scriptures about the things concerning him. He spoke about Moses and all the prophets.

When he was raised from the dead his disciples remembered that he said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus said.

I have not departed from the command of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah (YHWH), and on his law he meditates (ponders) (speaks softly with deep thought) (studies) (contemplates) day and night.