What Does the Bible Say About Source Of Inspiration?

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,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 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.

John 14:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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.

2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

2 Samuel 23:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 2:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. ...

1 Corinthians 14:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.

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

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ...

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 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.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

36 Bible Verses about Source Of Inspiration

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 14:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Samuel 23:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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36 Bible Verses about Source Of Inspiration

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2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 14:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Samuel 23:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes