18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For whatever things were written heretofore, were written for our instruction; that we through patience and the consolation of the scriptures might have hope.

Then He opened their mind, to understand the scriptures:

Ye search the scriptures; for ye think that in them ye have eternal life:

For they did not before understand the scripture, that He must rise from the dead.

And the portion of scripture, which he was reading, was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before it's shearer is dumb, so He opened not his mouth:

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this scripture, preached unto him Jesus.

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

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

If ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, which saith, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

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

Much, every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus: for all scripture is by inspiration from God,

Now there came to Ephesus a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures.

But Jesus answered them, Ye are mistaken, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God:

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

For Moses hath had from ancient times those that preach him in every city, and is still read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

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 to the people, deliver it.

These were more ingenuous than those at Thessalonica; for they received the word with all readiness of mind, searching the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.