19 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the christian doctrine be the familiar subject of your entertainment: in all wisdom instructing and exhorting one another, in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, melodiously tuning your grateful praises to God.

Jesus said therefore to those Jews who believed on him, if you adhere to my doctrine, then will you be my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth,

if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and you shall obtain it.

throw off then your vices as dregs and scum: and receive with docility that genuine doctrine, which is effectual to your salvation.

since your regeneration is not owing to any corruptible principles, but to the unchangeable word of the immortal God.

'tis he that has voluntarily renew'd us by the oracles of truth, that we might be the first converts of the new creation.

nor do we fail of giving thanks to God continually, that, when you received the word of God, which we preach, you did not receive it as the doctrine of men, but as a doctrine that appears to be truly divine, by the influences it displays in you, who believe.

and now, my brethren, I recommend you to God, and to his gracious dispensation, which is able to improve you, and secure to you the inheritance with those who are sanctify'd.

endeavour to approve yourself to God, as an artist that is not afraid of reproach, by rightly explaining the word of truth.

you are already clean by the instructions I have given you.

renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God.

you, who display the doctrine of eternal life) that in the day of Christ I may have the satisfaction of not having pursued my laborious course in vain.

now he that is disciplined like a child, is not prepared for the doctrine of justification:

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked spirit.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for tho' few in number, you have kept my word, and have not renounced my name.

When he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintain'd.

but Jesus answered him, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every thing that God shall prescribe."

for whoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my doctrine, of him shall the son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in the glory of his father, and of the holy angels.

nor will his Logos abide among you: for tho' he hath sent him, you do not believe him.