18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

For they still did not understand the Scripture that He must rise from the dead.

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.

So Philip proceeded to tell him the good news about Jesus, beginning from that Scripture.

As usual, Paul went to the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin’s power, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.

and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

A Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was powerful in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God?

For since ancient times, Moses has had those who proclaim him in every city, and every Sabbath day he is read aloud in the synagogues.”

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you can speak.”

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.