'Word' in the Bible

But he answered, "It is written, 'Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

Let your word be 'Yes, yes' or 'No, no.' More than this is from the evil one.

But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Instead, just say the word and my servant will be healed.

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown."

When the people there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

he does not need to honor his father.' You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, "Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us."

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

Then Jesus' mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

The sower sows the word.

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."

So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

So Mary said, "Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.

"Now, according to your word, Sovereign Lord, permit your servant to depart in peace.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

Simon answered, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets."

That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed.

"Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

Those along the path are the ones who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

But he replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!"

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.

The Word was with God in the beginning.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

and because of his word many more believed.

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

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

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'

"I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, "I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me."

(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

So after Peter and John had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages as they went.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, "It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.

So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region.

and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming (along with many others) the word of the Lord.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing."

Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

In this way the word of the Lord continued to grow in power and to prevail.

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) -- when you believed in Christ -- you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

and most of the brothers and sisters, having confidence in the Lord because of my imprisonment, now more than ever dare to speak the word fearlessly.

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.