'Word of God' in the Bible

he is not to honor his father with it. Thus you have made the word of God of no effect for the sake of your tradition.

thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do."

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Now as the people pressed around him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.

"Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

But he said to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

And when they had prayed, the place where they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

The word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John,

Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

But the word of God continued to grow and to be multiplied.

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John as their helper.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel,

Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached?

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God; but as men of sincerity, as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.

and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have been encouraged to speak the word of God without fear.

Of this church I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

for it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

for which I am suffering even to the point of wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith.

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and by means of water,

I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained;

He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was given. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony to Jesus and because of the word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.