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Understanding The Word
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The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
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.
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.
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, — read the full passage →
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
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.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; — 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.
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.
But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. — read the full passage →
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
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.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
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 grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
“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.
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
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.’”
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — read the full passage →
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
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.
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — 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,
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
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.
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? — read the full passage →
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 →
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
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.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →
Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. — read the full passage →
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, — read the full passage →
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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.
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name:
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: — read the full passage →
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — 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 →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →
So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed. — read the full passage →
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