21 Bible Verses about Reading The Scriptures

but was now upon his return, and sat in his chariot, reading the prophet Esaias.

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

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 as to the law of Moses, that has been published in every city a considerable time, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day:

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.

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

being come to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; according to his custom, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and standing up to read,

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

or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed?

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

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."

now as to the state of life after death, have ye not read that expression of God himself,

but he replied, have ye never read what David, and the rest of the company did, when they were press'd with hunger?

have you not read, said he, this passage of scripture, "the stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle.

but Jesus replied, have you never read what David did, when he and his company were press'd with hunger?

and said to him, do you hear what they say? yes, said Jesus; have ye never read, "out of the mouth of babes and sucklings I will make a consort of praise?"

and as for the dead, that they will actually rise, have you not read in the book of Moses those words, which God pronounc'd out of the bush to him, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?"

to whom he answered, how does the law run in that case? what do you find?

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.

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