36 Bible Verses about The Bible

they exhibit the effect of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bears them witness, as their moral convictions accuse or it may be defend them.)

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me;

you make it obvious that you are a letter of Christ which I have been employed to inscribe, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of the human heart.

(I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words never.

That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all

(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

for he publicly refuted the Jews with might and main, showing from the scriptures that the messiah was Jesus.

Tell them all this, exhort and reprove, with full authority; let no one slight you.

"Go and stand in the temple, telling the people all about this Life."

in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties,

He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,

A previous command is set aside on account of its weakness and uselessness

By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

Blessed is he who reads aloud, blessed they who hear the words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it; for the time is near.

Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

Yes, down to this day, whenever Moses is read aloud, the veil rests on their heart;

The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;

He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning

He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,

Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

Now even though it were myself or some angel from heaven, whoever preaches a gospel that contradicts the gospel I preached to you, God's curse be on him!

He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

and if anyone removes any words written in this book, God will remove his share in the tree of Life and in the holy City described in this book."]

Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans; also, see that you read the letter that reaches you from Laodicea.

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

where the people were more amenable than at Thessalonica; they were perfectly ready to receive the Word and made a daily study of the scriptures to see if it was really as Paul said.

The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.

So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good.

I am quite aware that 'the Law is admirable' ??provided that one makes a lawful use of it;

to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession,

Consecrate them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you.

He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities ??11 you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God;

The sower sows the word. As for those 'on the road,' when the seed is sown there ??as soon as they hear it, Satan at once comes and carries off the word sown within them.

Thus did the word of the Lord increase and prevail mightily.

It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

put on salvation as your helmet, and take the Spirit as your sword (that is, the word of God),

For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow ??scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.