27 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD:

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?

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

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.

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

"'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.

"The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.

Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.

For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.

"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land-- not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

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