43 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible

Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.

By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

While they stood in their place, they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.

Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

They read from the book, from the law of God, translating to give the sense so that they understood the reading.

But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.

Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

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

And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,

But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation,

when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing.

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I cannot read.”

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”

It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Seek from the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.

He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

“Heed instruction and be wise,
And do not neglect it.

But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;

But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

But He replied to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,