16 Bible Verses about Reading Other Matter

And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the exhortation.

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

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

Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king its interpretation.

And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me its interpretation: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing:

The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and explain doubts: now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

For we write none other things unto you, than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;

You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

On that night the king could not sleep, and he commanded to be brought the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

The letter which you sent unto us has been plainly read before me.

Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.