What Does the Bible Say About Studying The Scriptures?

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 7 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.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

John 5:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

Philippians 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 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.

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Psalm 119:97 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

1 Peter 1:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 12:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...

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.

John 17:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

26 Bible Verses about Studying The Scriptures

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 5:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:97 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 12:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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26 Bible Verses about Studying The Scriptures

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2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 5:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:97 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 12:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote