18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.

(For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.)

Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer [is] silent, so he did not open his mouth.

So Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture, proclaimed the good news to him [about] Jesus.

{And as was his custom}, Paul went in to them and on three Sabbath [days] he discussed with them from the scriptures,

But the scripture imprisoned all under sin, in order that the promise could be given by faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe.

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.

Much in every way. For first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

and that from childhood you have known the holy writings that are able [to make] you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now a certain Jew {named} Apollos, {a native} Alexandrian, arrived in Ephesus--an eloquent man who was well-versed in the scriptures.

But Jesus answered [and] said to them, "You are mistaken, [because] you do not know the scriptures or the power of God!

Jesus said to them, "Are you not deceived because of this, [because you] do not know the scriptures or the power of God?

For Moses has those who proclaim him in every city from ancient generations, [because he] is read aloud in the synagogues on every Sabbath."

So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent [word] to them, saying, "Men [and] brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say [it]."

Now these were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica. {They} accepted the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day [to see] if these [things] were so.