18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.

And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;

and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus,

And Jesus answering said to them, 'Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

And Jesus answering said to them, 'Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?

for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him -- in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'

and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;