What Does the Bible Say About Its Word?

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

John 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

2 John 1:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth, because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another. ...

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

[[They went each to his own house, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 24:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

Luke 21:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Luke 6:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Amos 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Psalm 119:89 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

31 Bible Verses about Its Word

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 John 1:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 21:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:89 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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31 Bible Verses about Its Word

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2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 John 1:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 21:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:89 ESV / 2 helpful votes