Reading Your Bible

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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.’”

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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,

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; — read the full passage →

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.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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?”

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

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

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? — read the full passage →

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

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 →

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. — 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.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

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,

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”

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.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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 →

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

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.

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

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;

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. — read the full passage →

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.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

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.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

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

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

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.”

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

After this, the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. — read the full passage →

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

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

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends

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 →