34 Bible Verses about The scriptures

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant.

Daleth. Cleaved to the dust hath my soul, Quicken me according to Thy word.

Waw. And meet me doth Thy kindness, O Jehovah, Thy salvation according to Thy saying.

My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word.

Taw. My loud cry cometh near before Thee, O Jehovah; According to Thy word cause me to understand.

and he readeth in it before the broad place that is before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people are unto the book of the law.

but thou hast entered -- and thou hast read in the roll that thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah, in the ears of the people, in the house of Jehovah, in the day of the fast, and also in the ears of all Judah who are coming in from their cities thou dost read them;

and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

in the coming in of all Israel to see the face of Jehovah in the place which He chooseth, thou dost proclaim this law before all Israel, in their ears. Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared Jehovah your God, and observed to do all the words of this law; and their sons, who have not known, do hear, and have learned to fear Jehovah your God all the days which ye are living on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'

Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.

Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.

Samech. Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

He. Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it -- to the end.

The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed.

Blessed art Thou, O Jehovah, teach me Thy statutes. With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.

I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.

Kaph. Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

Those fearing Thee see me and rejoice, Because for Thy word I have hoped.

Every saying of God is tried, A shield He is to those trusting in Him.

Sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.

Tried is thy saying exceedingly, And Thy servant hath loved it.

But he answering said, 'It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Then saith Jesus to him, 'Go -- Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

Jesus said to him again, 'It hath been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

But -- in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation.

Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

'Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

And in the third year of his reign he hath sent for his heads, for Ben-Hail, and for Obadiah, and for Zechariah, and for Nethaneel, and for Michaiah, to teach in cities of Judah, and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijath, and Tob-Adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. And they teach in Judah, and with them is the Book of the Law of Jehovah, and they go round about into all cities of Judah, and teach among the people.

And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, giving the people understanding in the law, and the people, are on their station, and they read in the book, in the law of God, explaining -- so as to give the meaning, and they give understanding to the convocation.

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,

'And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'

I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;

But he answering said, 'It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem -- the village where David was -- the Christ doth come?'

And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:

Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.

The whole thing which I am commanding you -- it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.

See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;

'And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;

and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

but to us did God reveal them through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God, for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God. And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us, read more.
which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing, and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;

Also -- Thy servant is warned by them, 'In keeping them is a great reward.'

And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

that, according as it hath been written, 'He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'

because it hath been written, 'Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

and it hath been with him, and he hath read in it all days of his life, so that he doth 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, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.

Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.

and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'

Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

and he readeth in it before the broad place that is before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people are unto the book of the law.

'And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.

But he answering said, 'It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;

For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings --

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls; and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

This is my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.

To the age I forget not Thy precepts, For by them Thou hast quickened me.

And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.

Shin. Princes have pursued me without cause, And because of Thy words was my heart afraid.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart are they.

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

Zain. Remember the word to Thy servant, On which Thou hast caused me to hope.

Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

The sum of Thy word is truth, And to the age is every judgment of Thy righteousness!

for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read -- having judged him -- did fulfil,

And Jesus answering said to them, 'Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

if any one doth speak -- 'as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- 'as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

That a rebellious people is this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

But -- in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.

And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

'Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

and it hath been with him, and he hath read in it all days of his life, so that he doth learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them; so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

They answered and said to him, 'Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'

Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

'For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll, and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'

for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.

and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah thou dost say: Thus said Jehovah, Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Wherefore hast thou written on it, saying, The king of Babylon surely cometh in, and hath destroyed this land, and caused to cease from it man and beast? 'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He hath none sitting on the throne of David, and his carcase is cast out to heat by day, and to cold by night; and I have charged on him, and on his seed, and on his servants, their iniquity; and I have brought in on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto the men of Judah, all the evil that I have spoken unto them, and they hearkened not.'

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts; this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,

The opening of Thy words enlighteneth, Instructing the simple.

I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept.

My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.

I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept.

Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.

How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands are righteous.

but I declare to thee that which is noted down in the Writing of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself with me, concerning these, except Michael your head.

Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

if any one doth speak -- 'as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- 'as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'

And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Thy word.

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --

And all the people are gathered as one man unto the broad place that is before the water-gate, and they say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, that Jehovah commanded Israel.

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.

They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

And he said to them, 'Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death; and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine, read more.
and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother, setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings --

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

But -- in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night: