17 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.

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.

(For as yet they did not understand the Scripture that he must rise from the dead.)

Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: ??he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

Then Philip opened his lips, and starting from this scripture preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

and Paul as usual went in; for three sabbaths he argued with them on the scriptures,

but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

speaking of this as he has done in all his letters ??letters containing some knotty points, which ignorant and unsteady souls twist (as they do the rest of the scriptures) to their own destruction.

Much in every way. This to begin with ??Jews were entrusted with the scriptures of God.

remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.

There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.

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

Jesus said to them, "Is this not where you go wrong? ??you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

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.