43 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible

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Ephesians 3:4

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

Nehemiah 9:3

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.

Acts 8:30

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

Nehemiah 8:8

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

Ecclesiastes 12:12

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

Nehemiah 8:5

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.

2 Corinthians 3:2

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

Jeremiah 51:63

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,

Deuteronomy 31:11

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.

Isaiah 29:12

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

Acts 13:15

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.”

Deuteronomy 17:19

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,

Isaiah 34:16

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.

Nehemiah 8:3

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.

Isaiah 29:11

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.”

Daniel 9:2

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.

Matthew 12:3

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

Luke 4:21

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

Exodus 24:7

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!”

Matthew 21:42

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’?

Matthew 16:2

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

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