19 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.

You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you.

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

(For anyone who is fed on milk is unskilled in moral truth; he is a mere babe.

fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One.

Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;

He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

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

his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.