13 Bible Verses about Scripture, Understanding

And account the long-suffering of our Lord salvation; as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you; as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Concerning Whom we have much to say and difficult to explain, since ye have become dull of hearing.

Until I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching.

Give diligence to present yourself approved to God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him"; but to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things ??ven the deep things of God. For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.read more.
And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.

Then He opened their mind, that they might understand the Scriptures;

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I told you.

But, when He, the Spirit of truth, shall come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak from Himself; but whatsoever He heareth He will speak; and He will declare to you things to come.

And the Anointing which ye received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that anyone teach you; but as His Anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as He taught you, ye abide in Him.

And He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; with a view to the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man??o the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;read more.
that we may no longer be babes, billow-tossed, and carried about with every wind of teaching, in the sleight of men, in the craftiness suited to the artifice of error;

These things command and teach. Let no one despise your youth; but become a model for believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Until I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching.read more.
Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership. Attend to these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may be manifest to all. Take heed to yourself, and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

I charge you before God, and Christ Jesus, Who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His Kingdom, preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching. For there will be a time when they will not endure the healthful teaching; but, having itching ears, they will for themselves heap up teachers according to their own desires;read more.
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to the fables. But be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish your ministry.