100 Bible Verses about The Word Of God

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 142 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.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 98 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.’”

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 92 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.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 82 helpful votes

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

John 17:17 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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.

John 1:1 ESV / 73 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

John 6:63 ESV / 71 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 67 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:17 ESV / 64 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Jeremiah 23:29 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 52 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.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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

Luke 11:28 ESV / 47 helpful votes

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

John 15:3 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Psalm 119:130 ESV / 44 helpful votes

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 43 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.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 42 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.

James 1:21 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Job 23:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

James 1:22 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

John 1:14 ESV / 39 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.

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 34 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.

John 7:38 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Psalm 33:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.

Psalm 12:6 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 31 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Proverbs 30:5-6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Acts 17:11 ESV / 30 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 8:31-32 ESV / 30 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Luke 24:45 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Revelation 1:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

John 10:35 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

Romans 15:4 ESV / 28 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.

Psalm 18:30 ESV / 27 helpful votes

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Psalm 119:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Mark 13:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Psalm 119:160 ESV / 23 helpful votes

The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 22 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.

John 16:13 ESV / 22 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 1:1-2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Romans 1:16 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 15:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 5:39 ESV / 21 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 119:89 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:14 ESV / 20 helpful votes

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

1 Peter 1:25 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

2 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!

2 Timothy 3:15-17 ESV / 19 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.

Hebrews 1:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,

Matthew 22:29 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Romans 12:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 20:32 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

John 8:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Psalm 56:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Psalm 18:35-36 ESV / 15 helpful votes

You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

2 Samuel 23:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

John 14:6 ESV / 14 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.

Luke 24:27 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Psalm 107:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes

He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Isaiah 55:10-11 ESV / 13 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 Samuel 22:31 ESV / 13 helpful votes

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Joshua 1:8-9 ESV / 13 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. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

John 5:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

1 Thessalonians 5:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

Romans 10:1-11:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 2:41 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

John 15:1-17:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

John 7:1-16:33 ESV / 11 helpful votes

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” For not even his brothers believed in him. ...

John 1:1-3:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 7:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Matthew 5:1-18:35 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Ezekiel 12:1-28:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house. As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile's baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house. You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile. In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it. ...

Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 11 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

Proverbs 4:1-5:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Proverbs 4:1-10:32 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

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