27 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of LORD.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples,

If ye dwell in me, and my sayings dwell in you, ye will ask whatever ye may want, and it will be done to you.

Therefore having put off all filthiness and profusion of evil, receive with mildness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age.

Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

And now brothers, I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of LORD restricted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?

Now ye are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have know him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome evil.

I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee an opened door that none is able to shut it, because thou have little power, and thou keep my word, and did not deny my name.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of the Lamb that they held.

And he humbled thee, and allowed thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knew not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proce

But having answered, he said, It is written, Man will not live on bread alone, but on every word coming out through the mouth of God.

Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.

The Spirit of LORD spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

And the child Samuel served LORD before Eli. And the word of LORD was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.

For whoever may be ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of man will be ashamed of this man when he comes in his glory, and of the Father, and of the holy agents.

And ye have not his word dwelling in you, because ye do not believe that man whom he sent for this.

Behold, the days come, says lord LORD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of LORD.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of LORD, and shall not find it.