Reading Your Bible

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

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.

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

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →

Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

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

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

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

And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, 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 →

and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto 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 saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

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

and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from the scriptures,

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of 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 shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and ofalltribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

for by grace have ye 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 →

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

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.

Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

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

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

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

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:

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

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name JESUS; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

For no word from God shall be void of power.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

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