'Scripture' in the Bible

Have you not read this scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.

And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

If he called them 'gods' to whom the word of God came--and the scripture cannot be broken--

"I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, 'The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded [them], and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled.

So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it apart, but cast lots for it, [to see] whose it will be," so that the scripture would be fulfilled that says, "They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." Thus the soldiers did these [things].

After this, Jesus, knowing that now at last everything was completed, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."

For these [things] happened in order that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not a bone of his will be broken."

And again another scripture says, "They will look on [the one] whom they have pierced."

(For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.)

"Men [and] brothers, it was necessary [that] the scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit proclaimed beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus,

Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer [is] silent, so he did not open his mouth.

So Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture, proclaimed the good news to him [about] Jesus.

For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness."

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in [the passage about] Elijah, what the scripture says--how he appeals to God against Israel?

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news in advance to Abraham: "In you all the nations will be blessed."

But the scripture imprisoned all under sin, in order that the promise could be given by faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe.

But what does the scripture say? "Drive out the female slave and her son, for the son of the female slave will never inherit with the son" of the free woman.

For the scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox [while it] is threshing," and "The worker [is] worthy of his wages."

All scripture [is] inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?

For it stands in scripture, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen [and] precious cornerstone, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame."

recognizing this above all, that every prophecy of scripture does not come about from one's own interpretation,