43 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible

Until I come, pay attention to the [public] reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

so that you may be able when you read to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of Yahweh their God for a fourth part of the day, and for a fourth they were confessing and worshiping Yahweh their God.

So Philip ran up to [it] [and] heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?"

So they read the book from the law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that they could understand the reading.

My son, be careful {about anything beyond these things}. For the writing of books is endless, and too much study {is wearisome}.

Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, because he was above all of the people. When he opened it all the people stood up.

You are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all people,

Blessed [is] the one who reads aloud and [blessed are] those who hear the words of the prophecy and observe the things written in it, because the time [is] near!

{And then} when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of [the] Euphrates.

recognizing this above all, that every prophecy of scripture does not come about from one's own interpretation,

{when all Israel comes to appear before} Yahweh their God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel {in their hearing}.

Consequently, faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.

And [if] the document is given to [one] who does not {know how to read}, saying, "{Read} this now!" he says, "I do not {know how to read}."

So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent [word] to them, saying, "Men [and] brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you 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 revere Yahweh your God by {diligently observing} all the word of this law and these rules,

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 Yahweh and {read}; none of these shall be missing; none shall miss her mate. For my mouth {is the one that} has commanded, and his spirit {is the one that} has gathered them.

He read from it facing the public square before the Water Gate from dawn until noon that day, opposite the men, women, and those with understanding. The ears of 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 there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you.

And the vision of all this has become for you like [the] words of sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, "{Read} this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it [is] sealed."

You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.

but whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect [it].

but examine all [things]; hold fast to [what is] good.

But until today, whenever Moses is read aloud, a veil lies upon their heart,

But Jesus answered [and] said to them, "You are mistaken, [because] you do not know the scriptures or the power of God!

But their minds were hardened. For until this very day, the same veil remains upon the reading of the old covenant, not being uncovered, because it is done away with in Christ.

in [the] first year [of] his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was [that were] to be fulfilled [according to] [the] word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem--seventy years.

So he said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him,

I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

Know that Yahweh, he [is] God; he made us and we are his. [We are] his people and the sheep of his pasture.

[The] stone the builders rejected has become [the] chief cornerstone.

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 age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

And he took the scroll of the covenant and read [it] in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will listen."

Instead, in the law of Yahweh [is] his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

So he answered [and] said to them, "[When] evening comes you say, '[It will be] fair weather because the sky is red,'

And he answered [and] said, "Have you not read that the one who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female