18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

Then He opened their mind, that they might understand the Scriptures;

Ye search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life; and these are they that testify concerning Me;

for as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and, as a lamb dumb before its shearer, so He openeth not His mouth.

And Philip, opening his mouth, and, beginning from this Scripture, proclaimed to him the good news of Jesus.

and, according to Paul's custom, he went in to them; and for three sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

but the Scripture shuts up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

If, however, ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," ye do well;

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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

and that, from a babe, you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a learned man, came down to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.

But Jesus, answering, said to them, "Ye deceive yourselves, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God;

Jesus said to them, "Is it not on this account that ye err, because ye know not the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

for Moses, from ancient generations, has in every city those preaching 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 there is among you any word of exhortation for the people, speak."

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.