34 Bible Verses about The scriptures

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word to thy servant.

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

VAU. Let thy mercies come also to me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

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

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

And he read therein before the street that was before the water-gate from the morning until mid-day, before 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.

Therefore go thou and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the day of fasting: 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 to them, saying, Men, brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Convene the people, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: And that their children who have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

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

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

SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

Consider how I love thy precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to thy loving-kindness.

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

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

To him give all the prophets testimony, that through his name whoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures, that Jesus was Christ.

And thou shalt teach them diligently to 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 to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it to the end.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

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

I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

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

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

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

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of 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 to him, Be gone, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

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

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

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

My eyes anticipated the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

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

Therefore whoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:

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

Men, brethren, This scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who was guide to them that took Jesus.

For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

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

Also 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. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, 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:

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

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are these who hear the word of God, and do it.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest to 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 Christ cometh from the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

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

Whatever thing I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.

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

And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

But, when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all the truth: for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he shall hear, that will he speak: and he will show you things to come.

But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. read more.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Moreover, by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, 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 word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD 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 will take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Accursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

And he read therein before the street that was before the water-gate from the morning until mid-day, before 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 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 every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD 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 reviveth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a light that shineth 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 child thou hast known the sacred scriptures, which are able to make thee wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

(Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures)

As new-born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath revived me.

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast revived me.

For all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

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

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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

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

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

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

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

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

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

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

Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.

If any man speaketh let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man ministereth let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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

Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

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

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

But he who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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

Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: That his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, and that he may not turn 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.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

They answered and said to him, Art thou also from Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

For I testify to every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

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

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

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works.

And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; 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 the LORD 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 in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

And thou shalt teach them diligently to 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 in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were 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 child thou hast known the sacred scriptures, which are able to make thee wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

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

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

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

But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, 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 powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

If any man speaketh let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man ministereth let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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

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

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

So shall I have with which to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

And all the people assembled as one man in the street that was before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

As new-born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed to it, according to thy word.

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb.

And he said to them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition, For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Whoever curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. read more.
And ye suffer him no more to do aught for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of no effect through your traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient: to which also they were appointed.

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

Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

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

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

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD 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 through his name.

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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

(Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures)

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.

And beginning at Moses, and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

When therefore he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them: and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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