'Scripture' in the Bible

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

Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."

For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, 'And he was counted with the transgressors.' For what is written about me is being fulfilled."

So after 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.

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

So the soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it." This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice." So the soldiers did these things.

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty!"

For these things happened so 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 understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

"Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas -- who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus --

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

So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

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

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may 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! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, "All the nations will be blessed in you."

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, "and to the descendants," referring to many, but "and to your descendant," referring to one, who is Christ.

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given -- because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ -- to those who believe.

But what does the scripture say? "Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son" of the free woman.

Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

For the scripture says, "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain," and, "The worker deserves his pay."

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

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

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

For it says in scripture, "Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame."

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet's own imagination,