27 Bible Verses about Receiving God's Word

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Isaiah said to Hezekiah: Hear the word of Jehovah!

Jesus told the Jews who believed him: If you dwell in my word you truly are my disciples.

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

Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.

You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.

Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

For this purpose we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace. This is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

Be diligent to be presented approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

Will it be said, O house of Jacob, 'Is the Spirit of Jehovah impatient? Are these his doings? Do my words not do good for he who walks uprightly?'

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

We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Hold fast to the word of life so I may rejoice in the day of Christ. That way I will not have labored in vain.

Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

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

I know your works (deeds) (acts). Pay attention, I set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the persons who were slaughtered because of the word of God, and for the witness they gave.

He humbled you (allowed you to suffer) with hunger and then fed you with manna. Neither you nor your fathers had seen this before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but must live on all (everything) (every word) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.

In reply Jesus answered: It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all (everything) (every word) (every utterance) (every declaration) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)

You spoke to me, and I listened to every word. I belong to you, Lord Jehovah. Your words filled my heart with joy and happiness.

The Spirit of Jehovah spoke through me. His word was on my tongue.

When the boy Samuel was serving Jehovah under the direction of Eli, there were very few messages from Jehovah. Visions from him were rare.

If any man is ashamed of my teachings, and of me the Son of man will be ashamed of that person. This will happen when he comes in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

You do not have his word dwelling in you. This is because you do not believe in the person he has sent.

Behold, the day is coming, said the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.

They will wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east. They will run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and will not find it.