Reading The Bible

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

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

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” — read the full passage →

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; — read the full passage →

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Do all things without murmurings and disputes, — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue; — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

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

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?” — read the full passage →

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,