28 Bible Verses about Literacy

And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Hezekiah went up to the house of LORD, and spread it before LORD.

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But consider, I pray you, and see ho

And the king went up to the house of LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their ears all the words

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

(And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.)

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou come to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words.

And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up. And according to that which was customary to him, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

And he was returning, and sitting in his chariot, and reading the prophet Isaiah.

Blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and who keep the things written in it, for the time is near.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue rulers sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if there is among you a word of exhortation for the people, speak.

For we write no other thing to you, but rather what ye read or also acknowledge. And I hope ye will also acknowledge until the end,

With which reading ye can recognize my understanding in the mystery of the Christ,

And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.

I adjure you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the holy brothers.

Until I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of t And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered to me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

The letter which ye sent to us has been plainly read before me.

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah. And Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of LORD, which he had spoken to him, upon a roll of a book.

I Tertius, the man who wrote the letter, salute you in Lord.

And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it, and our rulers, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.

And again having stooped down, he wrote on the ground.

And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book. And they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.

All this, [David said], I have been made to understand in writing from the hand of LORD, even all the works of this pattern.

And having asked for a writing tablet, he wrote, saying, His name is John. And they all marveled.

Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin.

We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, themselves also declaring the same things by speech.

And the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee. And he says, I am not learned.