28 Bible Verses about Literacy

When Hezekiah had received the letter of the hand of the messenger and had read it, he went into the house of the LORD and laid it abroad before the LORD.

And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, "Am I God, to slay and to make alive, that he should send to me, for to deliver a man from his leprosy? But consider, I pray you, and see how he picketh quarrels with me!"

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabiters of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the Prophets and all the people both small and great. And he read in the ears of them all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the LORD.

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and of all that could understand it, upon the first day of the seventh month.

Which letter Zephaniah the priest did read, and let Jeremiah the prophet hear it.

and gave Seraiah this charge, "When thou comest unto Babylon, see that thou read all these words,

And he came to Nazareth where he was nursed, and as his custom was, went into the synagogue on the Sabbath days, and stood up for to read.

And as he returned home again, sitting in his chariot, he read Isaiah the prophet.

Happy is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein. For the time is at hand.

And after the law and the prophets were read, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them saying, "Ye men and brethren, if ye have any sermon to exhort the people, say on."

We write no other things unto you, than that ye read and also know. Yea, and I trust ye shall find us unto the end

whereby, when ye read ye may know mine understanding in the mystery of Christ,

And when the epistle is read of you, make that it be read in the congregation of the Laodiceans also: and that ye likewise read the epistle of Laodicea.

I charge you in the Lord, that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the temple of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. And then Shaphan the scribe went to the king and brought him word again, and said, "Thy servants poured out the silver that was found in the temple, and have delivered it unto the workmen that have the oversight of the house of the LORD." Furthermore Shaphan the scribe showed the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me here a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.

The letter which ye sent unto us, hath been openly read before me,

Then did Jeremiah call Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote in the book at the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him.

I Tercius salute you, which wrote this epistle in the Lord.

And in all this make we a sure covenant, and write it, and let our princes, Levites, and priests seal it."

And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

When Moses had made an end of writing out the words of this law in a book, unto the end of them, he commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, "Take the book of this law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and let it be there for a witness unto thee.

And the men departed, and walked through the land and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and returned to Joshua unto the host at Shiloh.

"All was given me by writing of the hand of the LORD, which made me understand all the workmanship of the pattern."

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

This title read many of the Jews. For the place where Jesus was crucified, was nigh to the city. And it was written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin.

We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, which shall also tell you the same things by mouth.

But if it be given to one that is not learned, saying, "Read thou, in it." Then sayeth he, "I cannot read."