18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures
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For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this:
“He was led as a sheep to slaughter;
And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
So He does not open His mouth.
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him.
And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.
But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?
For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”
Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
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