'Word' in the Bible

As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,

As he gave his word to our fathers.

And all who had word of them kept them in their minds and said, What will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,

When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

Then he said to them, Today this word has come true in your hearing.

And they were surprised at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

He went near her, and with a sharp word he gave orders to the disease and it went away from her; and straight away she got up and took care of their needs.

And evil spirits came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.

Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;

And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.

And I had the feeling that I was not even good enough to come to you: but say the word only, and my servant will be well.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.

And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.

Go back to your house and let them have news of all the great things which God has done for you. And he went away, giving word through all the town of the great things which Jesus had done for him.

Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.

But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

And if anyone says a word against the Son of man, he will have forgiveness: but for him who says evil words against the Holy Spirit, there will be no forgiveness.

And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.

Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.

From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

This Word was from the first in relation with God.

And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.

Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism

Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.

Philip went and gave word of it to Andrew; and Andrew went with Philip to Jesus.

He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

And now I have given you word of it before it comes, so that, when it comes, you may have faith.

I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

My prayer is not for them only, but for all who will have faith in me through their word;

But Peter was kept outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was a friend of the high priest, came out and had a word with the girl who kept the door, and took Peter in.

(That the word of Jesus might come true, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)

And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:

My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,

And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.

For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.

But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.

And now, Lord, take note of their cruel words, and give your servants power to be preachers of your word without fear,

And when their prayer was ended, the place where they were was violently moved, and they all became full of the Holy Spirit, preaching the word of God without fear.

And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.

Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.

But those who had gone in flight went everywhere preaching the word.

Now when the Apostles at Jerusalem had news that the people of Samaria had taken the word of God into their hearts, they sent to them Peter and John;

So they, having given their witness and made clear the word of the Lord, went back to Jerusalem, giving the good news on their way in a number of the small towns of Samaria.

And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--

That word you yourselves have knowledge of, which was made public through all Judaea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism of which John was the preacher,

While Peter was saying these words, the Holy Spirit came on all those who were hearing the word.

Now the Apostles and the brothers who were in Judaea had news that the word of God had been given to the Gentiles.

But the word of the Lord went on increasing.

And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them.

Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.

From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

And on the Sabbath after, almost all the town came together to give hearing to the word of God.

Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.

And the word of the Lord went through all the country.

So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And, after preaching the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;

And so we have sent Judas and Silas, who will say the same things to you themselves, by word of mouth.

But Paul and Barnabas kept on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of God, with a number of others.

And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;

And they gave the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had news that Paul was preaching the word at Beroea, they came there, troubling the people and working them up.

And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was completely given up to the word, preaching to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

And Crispus, the ruler of the Synagogue, with all his family, had faith in the Lord; and a great number of the people of Corinth, hearing the word, had faith and were given baptism.

And he was there for a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

And this went on for two years, so that all those who were living in Asia had knowledge of the word of the Lord, Greeks as well as Jews.

So the word of the Lord was increased very greatly and was full of power.

And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.

But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people.

And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

But Paul's sister's son had word of their design, and he came into the army building and gave news of it to Paul.

So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things.

And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;