Reading Your Bible

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

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement 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 is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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.

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

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.’”

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

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

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

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

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

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.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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

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

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

“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.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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;

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — 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. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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