20 Bible Verses about Bible, Names Of

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls. But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

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

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, except Michael your prince.

Then I say, "Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me.

And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.

Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the Lord has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them.

So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord's commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.

For these are rebellious people -- they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord's law.

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

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Whoever speaks, let it be with God's words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.