'Writing' in the Bible
'And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;
And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:
and the Writing was fulfilled that is saying, 'And with lawless ones he was numbered.'
And he began to say unto them -- 'To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;'
when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.
he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem -- the village where David was -- the Christ doth come?'
and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,
and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,
if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)
not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.
when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.
they said, therefore, to one another, 'We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;' that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, 'They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;' the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things.
After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, 'I thirst;'
For these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, 'A bone of him shall not be broken;'
and again another Writing saith, 'They shall look to him whom they did pierce.'
for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.
'Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,
And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;
and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.
for what doth the writing say? 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'
for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- 'For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'
for the Writing saith, 'Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,'
God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,
and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --
but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
but what saith the Writing? 'Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'
And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,
for the Writing saith, 'An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and 'Worthy is the workman of his reward.'
every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,
If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;
and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, 'Friend of God' he was called.
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: 'Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'
this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,
and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,