21 Bible Verses about Reading The Scriptures

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

So Philip ran up to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, "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 any word of exhortation for the people, say it."

For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.

Blessed is he who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it; for the time is near.

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

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

Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are innocent?

And he answered them, "Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

But as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,

But he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those who were with him:

Have you not read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone;

Jesus answered them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:

and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise'?"

And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, '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 hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, the same veil remains unlifted, because only in Christ is it removed.

Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts.