57 Bible Verses about Preaching, Content Of

Wherefore I call you to witness this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men; for I have not kept back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

And after John was delivered up Jesus came into Galilee preaching the good news of God, saying, The time is completed, and the kingdom of God is at hand; change your minds and believe in the good news.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Change your minds; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And he went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

And he travelled in order through the cities and villages, proclaiming and preaching the good news of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him,

And going into the synagogue he spoke boldly, for three months, reasoning and persuading in favor of the kingdom of God.

And now, behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom shall see my face no more.

Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazoraean, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles, which God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know,

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching the good news of peace by Jesus Christ,??e is Lord of all,??37 you know; the word which was [preached] through all Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism which John preached, Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the doctrines concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but was yes in him;

this man, delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the hand of the wicked, him has God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, as it was not possible that he should be held by it.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you took and hung on a cross;

and we are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the land of Judea, and at Jerusalem, whom also they killed, hanging him on a cross. This [man] did God raise up on the third day, and permitted him to be made manifest, not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, to us, who eat and drank with him after he rose from the dead;read more.
and he commanded us to preach to the people and testify fully that he is appointed by God the judge of living and dead.

and [although] they found no cause of death [in him], they requested of Pilate that he might be destroyed; and when they had performed all things written of him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead,read more.
and he appeared many days to those who went up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

and since the Jews seek signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom, we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness, but to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God;

But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is not a resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then both our preaching is vain, and your faith also vain;read more.
and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in regard to God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if indeed the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, Christ was not raised; and if Christ was not raised, your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins,

Being therefore exalted on the right hand of God, and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured this out which you both see and hear. For David ascended not to heaven, but he says, The Lord said to my lord, Sit on my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.

him has God exalted, a Prince and Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and the forgiveness of sins.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.read more.
The archetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly, that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.

and every day in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching the good news of Christ Jesus.

and Philip going down to a city of Samaria preached Christ to them.

and immediately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that this is the Son of God. And all that heard him were astonished and said, Is not this he that destroyed those who called on this name at Jerusalem, and has come here for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the chief priests? But Saul increased in power and confounded the Jews living at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching the good news of peace by Jesus Christ,??e is Lord of all,??37 you know; the word which was [preached] through all Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism which John preached,

And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul gave himself wholly to preaching the word, testifying to the Jews Christ Jesus.

Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to change their minds,

saying, The time is completed, and the kingdom of God is at hand; change your minds and believe in the good news.

And Peter said to them, Change your minds, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

but preached first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the gentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God, performing works worthy of a change of mind.

Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins,

and said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day, and that a change of mind and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

To him all the prophets bear witness, that every one who believes in him has forgiveness of sins through his name.

and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers.

And the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God to serve tables.

And he went to Tarsus to seek for Saul, and found and brought him to Antioch. And he was with them, and they met a whole year with the church and taught a great multitude; and the disciples first took the name of Christians at Antioch.

But Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, teaching and preaching with many others the word of the Lord.

AND a certain Jew by the name of Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being powerful in the Scriptures. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit spoke and taught correctly the doctrines concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John; and this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Priscilla and Aquila hearing him took him and taught him more accurately the way.

how I kept not back from declaring to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house any thing that was profitable,

And he remained there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

go and disciple all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.

But you have not so learned Christ, if you have indeed heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus, that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,read more.
and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more. For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

Speak things which become sound teaching. That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience; that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,read more.
that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, sober, pure, fond of home, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. In like manner exhort the younger to be of a sound mind, presenting yourself as an example of good works in all things, in teaching [exhibiting] integrity, gravity, sound argument not to be condemned, that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of us. Let servants be subject to their masters, please them in all things, not contradicting, not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things. For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life, looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority; let no man despise you.

preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction;

And when they had gone out, [the people] requested that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath. And the congregation being dismissed, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who gave them additional instructions, and persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

And having preached the good news to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch, confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.

And going through those parts, and exhorting them with many words, he went into Greece;

What then is [to be done] brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a revelation, has an interpretation; let all things be done for edification. If any one speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or at most by three, and by turns, and let one interpret; and if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.read more.
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge; but if any thing is revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be comforted.

and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.

I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle;

Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ. But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.read more.
As we said before I now also say again, If any one preaches you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be accursed.

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons, [misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized, who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.read more.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed; but avoid profane and silly myths; exercise yourself in piety;