Reference: Scripture
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Or SCRIPTURES, the writings, that is, by eminence; the inspired writings, comprising the Old and New Testaments. See BIBLE.
Easton
invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which we usually call the Old Testament (2Ti 3:15-16; Joh 20:9; Ga 3:22; 2Pe 1:20). It was God's purpose thus to perpetuate his revealed will. From time to time he raised up men to commit to writing in an infallible record the revelation he gave. The "Scripture," or collection of sacred writings, was thus enlarged from time to time as God saw necessary. We have now a completed "Scripture," consisting of the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament canon in the time of our Lord was precisely the same as that which we now possess under that name. He placed the seal of his own authority on this collection of writings, as all equally given by inspiration (Mt 5:17; 7:12; 22:40; Lu 16:29,31). (See Bible; Canon.)
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Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.
Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.
But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.
And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.
for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise from among the dead.
but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.
and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every scripture is divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
Hastings
1. The word 'Scripture' (Lat. scriptura, 'a writing,' 'something written') is used for the Bible as a whole, more often in the plural form 'Scriptures,' and also more properly for a passage of the Bible. It appears as tr of the Greek graph
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And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,
as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.
Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:
(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)
And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.
And as to the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire;
Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,
in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;
and account the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
Morish
This word occurs but once in the Old Testament, where an angel speaks of 'the scripture of truth.' Da 10:21. In the New Testament the various parts of the Old Testament are referred to as 'the scriptures'; they are the 'holy scriptures,' 2Ti 3:15; they must needs be fulfilled; they cannot be broken. Joh 10:35; Ac 17:2,11. Some erred because they did not know the scriptures. Mt 22:29. And 'all scripture' is God-inspired, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, or complete, fully fitted to every good work. 2Ti 3:16-17. It is in short a God-inspired and infallible revelation to man, and especially to those who are by grace in relationship with Him. As in a nation 'the records' are referred to as authority, so in the church, it is 'the scriptures' that bind the conscience, and should be an end of all controversy. To understand them the teaching of the Holy Spirit is needed, for "the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life."
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However, I will declare unto thee that which is set down in the scripture of truth; and there is not one that sheweth himself strong with me against these, but Michael your prince.
And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),
And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,
And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.
and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every scripture is divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; read more. that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.
Smith
Scripture.
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Watsons
SCRIPTURE, a term most commonly used to denote the writings of the Old and New Testament, which are sometimes called The Scriptures, sometimes the sacred or holy writings, and sometimes canonical scripture. See BIBLE.