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.

Let, I pray thee, thy lovingkindness be for my comfort, According to thy word unto thy servant.

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

VAV. Let thy lovingkindnesses also come unto me, O Jehovah, Even thy salvation, according to thy word.

My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

TAV. Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah: Give me understanding according to thy word.

And he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

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

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

when all Israel is come to appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

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

My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.

SAMEKH. I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law do I love.

Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

To him bear all the prophets witness, that through his name every one that believeth on him shall receive remission of sins.

for he powerfully confuted the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings 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 shall keep it unto the end.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge; For I have believed in thy commandments.

Blessed art thou, O Jehovah: Teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared All the ordinances of thy mouth.

I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words.

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

They that fear thee shall see me and be glad, Because I have hoped in thy word.

Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.

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

Thy word is very pure; Therefore thy servant loveth it.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.

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

Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.

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

Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock:

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

Brethren, it was needful that the Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to them that took Jesus.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. And they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Jehovah with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, 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 book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

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

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall 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 observe thy word.

But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it.

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

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

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

Have ye not read even this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;

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

What thing soever I command you, that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in 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 go over to possess it.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these'shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.

But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God. read more.
Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words . Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

Moreover by them is thy servant warned: In keeping them there is great reward.

Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

because it is written, Ye shall be 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;

Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; 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 a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil.

and if any man shall take away 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, Lo, I am come; In the roll 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 every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

And he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

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

I will never forget thy precepts; For with them thou hast quickened me.

For all these things hath my hand made, and'so all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.

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

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto 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 whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

ZAYIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, Because thou hast made me to hope.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever.

For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him .

But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

if any man speaketh,'speaking as it were oracles of God; is any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

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

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

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

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.

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

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and'so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead.

But Abraham saith, 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: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: and if any man shall take away 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 are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words .

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, 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 thence 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 punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; 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, but they hearkened not.

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

and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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

And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.

The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.

I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they observe not thy word.

Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they observe not thy word.

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

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Let my tongue sing of thy word; For all thy commandments are righteousness.

But I will tell thee that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me against these, but Michael your prince.

Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

if any man speaketh,'speaking as it were oracles of God; is any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.

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

Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

So shall I have an answer for him that reproacheth me; For I trust in thy word.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God ; read more.
ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways 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 them that are 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 may 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 putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

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

Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;

Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

And beginning 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 the dead, his disciples remembered that he spake this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.