'Written' in the Bible

They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea; for this is what has been written by the prophet:

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

and *said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written,‘He will command His angels concerning You’;and‘On their hands they will bear You up,So that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

Jesus said to him, “On the other hand, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Then Jesus *said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”

This is the one about whom it is written,‘Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,Who will prepare Your way before You.’

And He *said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a robbers’ den.”

The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

Then Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,Who will prepare Your way;

And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors Me with their lips,But their heart is far away from Me.

And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written of him.”

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”

For the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

And Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away, because it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,‘Make ready the way of the Lord,Make His paths straight.

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

for it is written,‘He will command His angels concerning You to guard You,’

And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written,

This is the one about whom it is written,‘Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,Who will prepare Your way before You.’

And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”

Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things which are written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘And My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a robbers’ den.”

But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:‘The stone which the builders rejected,This became the chief corner stone’?

because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.

For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, ‘And He was numbered with transgressors’; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment.”

Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume me.”

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

Even in your law it has been written that the testimony of two men is true.

Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.

Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they *were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself *would not contain the books that *would be written.

“For it is written in the book of Psalms,‘Let his homestead be made desolate,And let no one dwell in it’;and,‘Let another man take his office.’

But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

When they had carried out all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today i have begotten You.’

With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,

And Paul said, “I was not aware, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written,“That You may be justified in Your words,And prevail when You are judged.”

as it is written,“There is none righteous, not even one;

(as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,

Just as it is written,“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

just as it is written,“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”

just as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor,Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,Down to this very day.”

and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,“The Deliverer will come from Zion,He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”

Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

For it is written,“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,And every tongue shall give praise to God.”

For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.”

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written,“Therefore I will give praise to You among the Gentiles,And I will sing to Your name.”

But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

but as it is written,“They who had no news of Him shall see,And they who have not heard shall understand.”

For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

but just as it is written,“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,And which have not entered the heart of man,All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.”

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

In the Law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the Lord.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.

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

being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,

as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

as it is written,“He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor,His righteousness endures forever.”

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman.

For it is written,“Rejoice, barren woman who does not bear;Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor;For more numerous are the children of the desolateThan of the one who has a husband.”

Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you.

“Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come(In the scroll of the book it is written of Me)To do Your will, O God.’”

But I urge you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother (for so I regard him), I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it!

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.