28 Bible Verses about Literacy

And Hezekiah received the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Hezekiah went up into the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.

And it happened when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man from his leprosy? For consider now, and see, for he is coiling himself toward me.

And the king went up into the house of Jehovah. And all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets, and all the people, from the small even to the great. And he read all the Words of the Book of the covenant which was found in the house of Jehovah in their ears.

And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the congregation, both of men and women, and all that 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 you come to Babylon, and shall see and shall read all these words,

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And, as His custom was, He went in to the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.

was returning. And sitting in his chariot he read Isaiah the prophet.

Blessed is the one who reads and hears the Words of this prophecy, and the ones keeping the things written in it, for the time is near.

And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if you have any word of comfort for the people, speak.

For we write no other things to you than what you read or recognize, and I trust you shall recognize them even to the end,

by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

And when this letter is read before you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter of Laodicea.

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

Until I come, attend 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 Jehovah. And Hilkiah gave the Book to Shaphan, and he read it. And Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought the king word again, and said, Your servants have gathered the silver that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workers, who have the oversight of the house of Jehovah. And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a Book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

the letter which you 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 Jehovah, which He had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.

I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.

And because of all this we are cutting a sure covenant, and write it, and our princes, Levites, and priests are sealing it.

And again bending down, He wrote on the ground.

And it happened when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this Law in a book, until they were finished, Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying, Take this book of the Law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you.

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

All was in writing from the hand of Jehovah. He made me understand all the work of this pattern.

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

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

Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will also announce to you the same things by word.

And the book is delivered to him who does not know books, saying, Please read this; and he says, I do not know books.