21 Bible Verses about Reading The Scriptures

was returning, and, sitting in his chariot, read the prophet Isaiah.

And Philip ran forward, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said: Do you understand what you are reading?

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Brethren, if you have a word of exhortation for the people, speak.

For, from ancient times, Moses has, in every city, those who preach him, being read in the synagogue every sabbath-day.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, be cause they did not know him, nor the words of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Blessed is he that reads, and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it; for the time is at hand.

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he entered the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and stood up to read.

But he said to them: Have you not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry?

Or, have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female,

Jesus said to them: Did you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner?

But, concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying:

And he said to them: Did you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those who were with him?

Have you not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;

And Jesus answered and said to them: Have you not read even that which David did, when he was hungry him self, and those who were with him,

and they said to him: Do you not hear what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yes; have you never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

But concerning the dead, that they do rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, at The Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

He said to him: What is written in the law? How do you read?

But their minds were blinded: for till this day, in the reading of the old covenant, the same vail remains not taken away, which vail is removed in Christ.

But to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart: