27 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

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

Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Listen to the word of the Lord,

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

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

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God's message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God's message, which is at work among you who believe.

And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

Does the family of Jacob say, 'The Lord's patience can't be exhausted -- he would never do such things'? To be sure, my commands bring a reward for those who obey them,

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

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord's mouth.

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

As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.

The Lord's spirit spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.

Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli's supervision. Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.

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

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

Be certain of this, the time is coming," says the sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land -- not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation!

People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a revelation from the Lord, but they will not find any.