18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our instruction, that we, through patience and consolation of the scriptures, may have hope.

Then opened he their understanding,

Search the scriptures: in them ye think ye have eternal life: and it is they that testify of me.

For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

And he desired Philip to come up, and sit with him. The portion of scripture which he was reading, was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth.

Then Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.

And Paul, according to his custom, went in to them, and three sabbath-days discoursed with them from the scriptures,

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

If ye fulfil the royal law (according to the Scripture) Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

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

Much every way; chiefly in that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

And that from an infant thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, thro' faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

For in the resurrection,

For the seven had her to wife. And Jesus answering said to them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

For Moses hath of old time them that preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the chief of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.

These were more ingenuous than those of Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, and daily searching the scriptures, whether those things were so?