18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures,

Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise from among the dead.

And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.

And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.

And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,

but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.

If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures, arrived at Ephesus.

And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?

For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.