43 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible
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Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into this secret of Christ.
For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins and worshiping the LORD their God.
So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
They read from the book of God's law, explaining it and imparting insight. Thus the people gained understanding from what was read.
Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. There is no end to the making of many books, and much study is exhausting to the body.
Ezra opened the book in plain view of all the people, for he was elevated above all the people. When he opened the book, all the people stood up.
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,
Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!
When you finish reading this scroll aloud, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.
Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet's own imagination,
when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.
Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.
Or when they hand the scroll to one who can't read and say, "Read this," he says, "I can't read."
After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, "Brothers, if you have any message of exhortation for the people, speak it."
It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.
Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the Lord has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them.
So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.
There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.
To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say, "Read this," he responds, "I can't, because it is sealed."
You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,
Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.
But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds,
Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God.
But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books that, according to the word of the LORD disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem were seventy in number.
He said to them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry --
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)
Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."
Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said, "We are willing to do and obey all that the Lord has spoken."
Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord's commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.
Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
He said, "When evening comes you say, 'It will be fair weather, because the sky is red,'
He answered, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
