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The Word Of God
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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 he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
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.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Isn’t my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
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.
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
“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.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
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.
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Do all things without murmurings and disputes, — read the full passage →
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
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.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →
who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
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.
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,
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →
Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. — read the full passage →
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. — read the full passage →
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. — 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 →
Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →
Yahweh’s word also came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. — read the full passage →
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →
All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →
Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. — read the full passage →
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all 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. — read the full passage →
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
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.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →
I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
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.
But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
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 →
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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