43 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible
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Until I come, devote yourself to public reading [of Scripture], to preaching and to teaching [the sound doctrine of God’s word].
By referring to this, when you read it you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,
While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day and for another fourth [of it] they confessed [their sins] and worshiped the Lord their God.
Philip ran up and heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
So they read from the Book of the Law of God, translating and explaining it so that the people understood the reading.
But beyond this my son, [about going further than the words given by one Shepherd], be warned: the writing of many books is endless [so do not believe everything you read], and excessive study and devotion to books is wearying to the body.
Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above them; and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
You are our letter [of recommendation], written in our hearts, recognized and read by everyone.
Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and who keep the things which are written in it [heeding them and taking them to heart]; for the time [of fulfillment] is near.
And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.
But understand this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of or comes from one’s own [personal or special] interpretation,
when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all [the people of] Israel so that they may hear.
So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.
Then the book will be given to the one who cannot read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he will say, “I cannot read.”
After the reading of the Law and the [writings of the] Prophets, the officials of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers (kinsmen), if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.”
And it shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear [and worship] the Lord his God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], by carefully obeying (keeping foremost in his thoughts and actively doing) all the words of this law and these statutes,
All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage];
In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.
Seek from the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these [creatures] will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.
Then he read from it, in front of the open square which was in front of the Water Gate, from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and women, those who could understand; and all the people listened carefully to the Book of the Law.
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.
In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you.
The entire vision [of all these things] will be to you like the words of a scroll that is sealed, which they give to one who can read, saying, “Read this, please,” he shall say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
You search and keep on searching and examining the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and yet it is those [very Scriptures] that testify about Me;
but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
But test all things carefully [so you can recognize what is good]. Hold firmly to that which is good.
But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart;
But Jesus replied to them, “You are all wrong because you know neither the Scriptures [which teach the resurrection] nor the power of God [for He is able to raise the dead].
But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ.
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the desolations [which had been] pronounced on Jerusalem would end; and it was seventy years.
He said to them, “Have you not read [in the Scriptures] what David did when he was hungry, he and those who accompanied him—
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End [the Eternal One].”
Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His].
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.
He began speaking to them: “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing and in your presence.”
And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people; and they said, “Everything that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.”
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
Jesus asked them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
‘The [very] Stone which the builders rejected and threw away,
Has become the chief Cornerstone;
This is the Lord’s doing,
And it is marvelous and wonderful in our eyes’?
But He replied to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’
He replied, “Have you never read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
