reading gods word
What does the Bible say about reading gods word? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths.
12For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
16All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice, 17so that the man of God may be perfect, having been trained for every good work.
4For whatever was written, was written to teach us, so that, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
4And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
2Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,
12I have not withdrawn from the commands of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hidden in my sinews.
11I have hidden your eloquence in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.
15Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.