63 Bible Verses about Writing

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Jeremiah 30:2

Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

Luke 1:3

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

Deuteronomy 31:24

It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

Joshua 24:26

Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

2 Kings 23:21

The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."

1 Kings 11:41

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

2 Kings 12:19

Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Chronicles 29:29

Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Nehemiah 9:38

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it."

Deuteronomy 24:1

When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Mark 10:4

They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

2 Samuel 11:14

It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Romans 16:22

I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.

Colossians 4:18

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

1 Kings 21:8-11

So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death."read more.
The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

Galatians 6:11

See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

2 Peter 3:1

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

Exodus 32:15-16

Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

Deuteronomy 27:2-3

It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

Job 19:24

That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

Numbers 17:2-3

"Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write every man's name on his rod. You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.

Deuteronomy 6:9

You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

Zechariah 14:20

In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before the altar.

Daniel 5:5-8

In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another. The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.read more.
Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

Habakkuk 2:2

Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

Luke 1:63

He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.

Deuteronomy 17:18

It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:

Revelation 1:11

saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

Exodus 17:14

Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."

Numbers 5:23

"'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

Job 19:23

"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Isaiah 8:1

Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;'

Jeremiah 36:18

Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Jeremiah 51:60

Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

Ezekiel 9:2-3

Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.

Ezekiel 9:11

Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.

Exodus 34:1

Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Psalm 87:6

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.

John 8:6

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

Hebrews 8:10

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Hebrews 10:16

"This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,

Romans 2:15

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;

2 Corinthians 3:2

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

Deuteronomy 31:19

"Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Joshua 18:4

Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.

2 Chronicles 35:4

Prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

Psalm 102:18

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

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Isaiah 44:5

One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,' and honor the name of Israel."

Galatians 6:11

See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

Writing » On the heart

Hebrews 8:10

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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God Writing With His Finger

Deuteronomy 9:10

Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Not Writing

2 John 1:12

Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

Writing Letters

2 Corinthians 3:2-3

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

Writing On Objects

Deuteronomy 6:9

You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

Writing On People

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

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