25 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible

while I am absent apply yourself to reading, to exhortation, and instruction.

by the reading whereof you may perceive how far I am let into the secret of Christ.

Philip ran to him, and hearing him read the prophet Esaias, said, do you understand what you read?

you are my epistle, your conversion being writ in. my heart, known and read by all men:

Happy is he that reads, and attends to the words of this prophecy, and observes the matter therein contain'd: for the time draws nigh.

But you must above all consider, that no prophecy of the scripture did proceed

but all do not obey the gospel. for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

and after the lesson out of the law and the prophets was finish'd, the heads of the synagogue sent this message to them; Men and brethren, if you have any instruction to offer to the people, deliver it.

for all divinely inspired writings are conducive to instruction, to conviction, to reformation, and the practice of virtue;

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

in my father's house are many mansions; however, I have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you:

You search the scriptures, for you think by their means to have eternal life, and they are the very writings which do testify of me.

but when their mind shall turn to the Lord, that veil too shall be taken away.

bring every thing to the test: if it be proof, abide by that:

nevertheless, when Moses is read, the veil upon their mind continues unto this day:

Jesus answered them, you are mistaken, for want of a true notion of the scriptures, and of the divine power.

besides, their minds were greatly prejudiced: for that very veil would still have obstructed the understanding of the old testament, unless it had been taken away by Christ.

he answer'd them, have ye not read what David and the rest of the company did when they were hungry,

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

then he open'd their minds to make them understand the scriptures, and said to them,

he undertook to show them, how the passage they had heard, was actually then accomplished.

and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Jesus reply'd, did ye never read in the scriptures, " that very stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle, this the Lord effected, and it is marvellous in our eyes."

but he answered them, in the evening you foretel fair weather: when the sky is of a bright red.

and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,