34 Bible Verses about The scriptures

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

O may Your lovingkindness comfort me,
According to Your word to Your servant.

Daleth.
My soul cleaves to the dust;
Revive me according to Your word.

Vav.
May Your lovingkindnesses also come to me, O Lord,
Your salvation according to Your word;

My soul weeps because of grief;
Strengthen me according to Your word.

Tav.
Let my cry come before You, O Lord;
Give me understanding according to Your word.

He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

So you go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation the words of the Lord to the people in the Lord’s house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”

when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing. "Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law. "Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."

Mem.
O how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.

My soul keeps Your testimonies,
And I love them exceedingly.

Samekh.
I hate those who are double-minded,
But I love Your law.

Consider how I love Your precepts;
Revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”

for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

He.
Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes,
And I shall observe it to the end.

Teach me good discernment and knowledge,
For I believe in Your commandments.

Blessed are You, O LORD; Teach me Your statutes. With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth.

I rise before dawn and cry for help;
I wait for Your words.

Kaph.
My soul languishes for Your salvation;
I wait for Your word.

May those who fear You see me and be glad,
Because I wait for Your word.

Every word of God is tested;
He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

The words of the Lord are pure words;
As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

Your word is very pure,
Therefore Your servant loves it.

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Then Jesus *said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”

Jesus said to him, “On the other hand, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

I have more insight than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.

My eyes anticipate the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your word.

But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

“Brethren, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you hear His voice,

Then in the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the LORD with them; and they went throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, explained the law to the people while the people remained in their place. They read from the book, from the law of God, translating to give the sense so that they understood the reading.

These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

“You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.

But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

Have you not even read this Scripture:
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;

You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

“Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.

“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it.

The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, read more.
which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,

Seek from the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.

Your words were found and I ate them,
And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart;
For I have been called by Your name,
O Lord God of hosts.

I rejoice at Your word,
As one who finds great spoil.

and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light;
And reproofs for discipline are the way of life

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

This is my comfort in my affliction,
That Your word has revived me.

I will never forget Your precepts,
For by them You have revived me.

“For My hand made all these things,
Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
“But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

Shin.
Princes persecute me without cause,
But my heart stands in awe of Your words.

so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

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

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

I have inherited Your testimonies forever,
For they are the joy of my heart.

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Zayin.
Remember the word to Your servant,
In which You have made me hope.

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

The sum of Your word is truth,
And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.

For those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning Him.

But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who refuse to listen
To the instruction of the Lord;

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

But Abraham *said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’

"It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

They answered him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

"And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'Thus says the LORD, "You have burned this scroll, saying, 'Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?'" 'Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. "I will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them--but they did not listen."'"

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

You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

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

So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

The unfolding of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple.

I behold the treacherous and loathe them,
Because they do not keep Your word.

Establish my footsteps in Your word,
And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

I behold the treacherous and loathe them,
Because they do not keep Your word.

Nun.
Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.

How sweet are Your words to my taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Let my tongue sing of Your word,
For all Your commandments are righteousness.

However, I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. Yet there is no one who stands firmly with me against these forces except Michael your prince.

Seek from the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

“The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?

Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Your word I have treasured in my heart,
That I may not sin against You.

I shall delight in Your statutes;
I shall not forget Your word.

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Your word.

But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation,

but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;

And all the people gathered as one man at the square which was in front of the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

Beth.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.

They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. "For Moses said, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER'; and, 'HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH'; but you say, 'If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),' read more.
you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother; thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that."

and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of Your lips
I have kept from the paths of the violent.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

“I have not departed from the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.