For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
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 quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. — read the full passage →
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;
Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.
And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
So the disciples went away again unto their own home. — read the full passage →
Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him. — read the full passage →
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →
For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.