34 Bible Verses about The scriptures

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

Oh let thy loving-kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken me according to thy word.

VAU. And let thy loving-kindness come unto me, O Jehovah, thy salvation according to thy word.

My soul melteth for sadness: strengthen me according to thy word.

TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, Jehovah: give me understanding according to thy word.

And he read in it before the open place that was before the water-gate from the morning until midday, in presence of the men and the women, and those that could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the house of Jehovah upon the fast day; and thou shalt also read them in the ears of all Judah that come from their cities.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.

when all Israel cometh to appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he will choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their ears. Gather the people together, the men, and the women, and the children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and take heed to do all the words of this law; and that their children who do not know it may hear it and learn, that they may fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land, whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.

MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly.

SAMECH. The double-minded have I hated; but thy law do I love.

See how I have loved thy precepts: quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy loving-kindness.

For I delivered to you, in the first place, what also I had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins.

For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

HE. Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of thy statutes, and I will observe it unto the end.

Teach me good discernment and knowledge; for I have believed in thy commandments.

Blessed art thou, Jehovah! teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

I anticipate the morning-dawn and I cry: I hope in thy word.

CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

They that fear thee will see me, and rejoice; because I have hoped in thy word.

Every word of +God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Thy word is exceeding pure, and thy servant loveth it.

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Mine eyes anticipate the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy word.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;

But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.

Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus;

for prophecy was not ever uttered by the will of man, but holy men of God spake under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

And in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethaneel, and Micah, to teach in the cities of Judah; and with them the Levites: Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of Jehovah with them; and they went about through all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.

And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stood in their place. And they read in the law of God distinctly out of the book, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart;

And ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word.

But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?

Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:

Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye take from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

Everything that I command you, ye shall take heed to do it; thou shalt not add thereto, nor take from it.

See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it.

And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.

But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will announce to you what is coming.

but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God. But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God: read more.
which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

Moreover, by them is thy servant enlightened; in keeping them there is great reward.

Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.

and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy words were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

I have joy in thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

And if any one take from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me --

For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;

And he read in it before the open place that was before the water-gate from the morning until midday, in presence of the men and the women, and those that could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

who has also made us competent, as ministers of the new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

And we have the prophetic word made surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until the day dawn and the morning star arise in your hearts;

For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)

as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves. For if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:

in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word,

Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.

This is my comfort in mine affliction; for thy word hath quickened me.

I will never forget thy precepts; for by them thou hast quickened me.

Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word.

SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word,

Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

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

Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

ZAIN. Remember the word for thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.

The sum of thy word is truth, and every righteous judgment of thine is for ever.

for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, by judging him.

And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

If any one speak as oracles of God; if any one minister as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God.

To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.

that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing.

And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.

But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.

and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look, that no prophet arises out of Galilee.

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

I testify to every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any one shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book. And if any one take from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.

which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.

But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

Every scripture is divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.

And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from it man and beast? Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have not hearkened.

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

and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

And we have the prophetic word made surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until the day dawn and the morning star arise in your hearts; knowing this first, that the scope of no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation, for prophecy was not ever uttered by the will of man, but holy men of God spake under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Every scripture is divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

The entrance of thy words giveth light, giving understanding unto the simple.

I beheld them that deal treacherously, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Establish my steps in thy word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

I beheld them that deal treacherously, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!

My tongue shall speak aloud of thy word; for all thy commandments are righteousness.

However, I will declare unto thee that which is set down in the scripture of truth; and there is not one that sheweth himself strong with me against these, but Michael your prince.

Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected Jehovah's word; and what wisdom is in them?

If any one speak as oracles of God; if any one minister as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

I delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me; for I confide in thy word.

knowing this first, that the scope of no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

but which has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --

all the people gathered together as one man to the open place that was before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded Israel.

as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his path? by taking heed according to thy word.

They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.

And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die. But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ... read more.
And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother; making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do.

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man.

And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give to you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

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

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

but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.

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

Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.

But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.

(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.

Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures,

Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

When therefore he was raised from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.