What Does the Bible Say About The Importance Of Reading The Bible?

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 7 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.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 55:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 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.

Galatians 3:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— ...

2 Peter 1:16-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. ...

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

2 Timothy 3:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 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 4:11-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ...

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.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 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.

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.

Luke 24:1-53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? ...

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 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 119:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 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! ...

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ...

19 Bible Verses about The Importance Of Reading The Bible

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 3:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:16-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:1-53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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19 Bible Verses about The Importance Of Reading The Bible

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2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 3:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:16-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:1-53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote