18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through perseverance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Then he opened their minds, so they could understand the Scriptures.

You search the Scriptures, because in them you think that you have eternal life; and these are they that testify of me.

For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he does not open his mouth.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus.

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and for three weeks he reasoned with them from the scriptures,

But the Scripture has bound everyone under sin, so that that what was promised by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

If you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Much in every way! To begin with, they are entrusted with the oracles of God.

and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the scriptures.

But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Jesus said to them, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?

For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it."

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