The Scriptures

129 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

92 sections

Advantage of Possessing
All should Desire to Hear
Blessedness of Hearing and Obeying
Christ Enables Us to Understand
Christ Sanctioned, by Appealing to Them
Christ Taught out of
Contain the Promises of the Gospel
Denunciations Against Those Who Add To, or Take From
Designed For: Admonishing
Designed For: Building up in the Faith
Designed For: Cleansing the Heart
Designed For: Cleansing the Ways
Designed For: Comforting
Designed For: Converting the Soul
Designed For: Illuminating
Designed For: Keeping from Destructive Paths
Designed For: Making Wise the Simple
Designed For: Producing Faith
Designed For: Producing Hope
Designed For: Producing Obedience
Designed For: Promoting Growth in Grace
Designed For: Quickening
Designed For: Regenerating
Designed For: Rejoicing the Heart
Designed For: Sanctifying
Designed For: Supporting Life
Destruction of, Punished
Everything should be Tried By
Given by Inspiration of God
Given by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit
Ignorance of, a Source of Error
Intended for the Use of all Men
Let Them Dwell Richly in You
Mere Hearers of, Deceive Themselves
No Prophecy of, is of Any Private Interpretation
Nothing to be Taken From, or Added To
One Portion of, to be Compared with Another
Perfect
Precious
Pure
Quick and Powerful
Record Divine Prophecies
Reveal the Laws, Statutes, and Judgments of God
Saints: Delight In
Saints: Esteem, Above all Things
Saints: Esteem, As a Light
Saints: Grieve when Men Disobey
Saints: Hide, in Their Hearts
Saints: Hope In
Saints: Keep, in Remembrance
Saints: Long After
Saints: Love Exceedingly
Saints: Meditate In
Saints: Obey
Saints: Plead the Promises of, in Prayer
Saints: Pray to be Conformed To
Saints: Pray to be Taught
Saints: Regard, As Sweet
Saints: Rejoice In
Saints: Speak of
Saints: Stand in Awe of
Saints: Trust In
should be Appealed To
should be Believed
should be Known
should be Laid up in the Heart
should be not Handled Deceitfully
should be not Only Heard, but Obeyed
should be Read
should be Read Publicly to All
should be Received with Meekness
should be Received, not As the Word of Men, but As the Word of God
should be Searched
should be Searched Daily
should be Talked of Continually
should be Taught to All
should be Taught to Children
should be The Standard of Teaching
should Be used Against Our Spiritual Enemies
Testify of Christ
The Holy Spirit Enable Us to Understand
The Letter of, Without the Spirit, Killeth
The Wicked: Corrupt
The Wicked: Frequently Wrest, to Their own Destruction
The Wicked: Make, of None Effect Through Their Traditions
The Wicked: Obey Not
The Wicked: Reject
The Wicked: Stumble At
They Who Search, are Truly Noble
True
Work Effectually in Them That Believe
Written for Our Instruction

Advantage of Possessing

Romans 3:2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

All should Desire to Hear

Nehemiah 8:1 At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

Blessedness of Hearing and Obeying

Luke 11:28 But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
James 1:25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what he does.

Christ Enables Us to Understand

Luke 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Christ Sanctioned, by Appealing to Them

Matthew 4:4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Mark 12:10 Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
John 7:42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

Christ Taught out of

Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

Contain the Promises of the Gospel

Romans 1:2 the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

Denunciations Against Those Who Add To, or Take From

Revelation 22:18–19 I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. …

Designed For: Admonishing

Psalm 19:11 By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Designed For: Building up in the Faith

Acts 20:32 And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Designed For: Cleansing the Heart

John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

Designed For: Cleansing the Ways

Psalm 119:9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

Designed For: Comforting

Psalm 119:82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Designed For: Converting the Soul

Psalm 19:7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Designed For: Illuminating

Psalm 119:130 The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.

Designed For: Keeping from Destructive Paths

Psalm 17:4 As for the deeds of men — by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

Designed For: Making Wise the Simple

Psalm 19:7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Designed For: Producing Faith

John 20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

Designed For: Producing Hope

Psalm 119:49 Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Designed For: Producing Obedience

Deuteronomy 17:19–20 It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes. …

Designed For: Promoting Growth in Grace

1 Peter 2:2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

Designed For: Quickening

Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
Psalm 119:93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.

Designed For: Regenerating

James 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

Designed For: Rejoicing the Heart

Psalm 19:8 The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
Psalm 119:111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Designed For: Sanctifying

John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

Designed For: Supporting Life

Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Matthew 4:4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Destruction of, Punished

Jeremiah 36:29–31 You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive …

Everything should be Tried By

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

Given by Inspiration of God

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Given by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit

Acts 1:16 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
2 Peter 1:21 For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Ignorance of, a Source of Error

Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
Acts 13:27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Intended for the Use of all Men

Romans 16:26 but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith —

Let Them Dwell Richly in You

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Mere Hearers of, Deceive Themselves

James 1:22 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

No Prophecy of, is of Any Private Interpretation

2 Peter 1:20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.

Nothing to be Taken From, or Added To

Deuteronomy 4:2 You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:32 See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

One Portion of, to be Compared with Another

1 Corinthians 2:13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

Perfect

Psalm 19:7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Precious

Psalm 19:10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

Pure

Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
Psalm 119:140 Your promise is completely pure; therefore Your servant loves it.
Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

Quick and Powerful

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Record Divine Prophecies

2 Peter 1:19–21 We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. …

Reveal the Laws, Statutes, and Judgments of God

Deuteronomy 4:5 See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 4:14 At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
Exodus 24:3–4 When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.” …

Saints: Delight In

Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

Saints: Esteem, Above all Things

Job 23:12 I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Saints: Esteem, As a Light

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Saints: Grieve when Men Disobey

Psalm 119:158 I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.

Saints: Hide, in Their Hearts

Psalm 119:11 I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

Saints: Hope In

Psalm 119:74 May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
Psalm 119:81 My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
Psalm 119:147 I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

Saints: Keep, in Remembrance

Psalm 119:16 I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Saints: Long After

Psalm 119:82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

Saints: Love Exceedingly

Psalm 119:97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
Psalm 119:113 The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.
Psalm 119:159 Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
Psalm 119:167 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.

Saints: Meditate In

Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 119:99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalm 119:148 My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.

Saints: Obey

Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
Luke 8:21 But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
John 17:6 I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

Saints: Plead the Promises of, in Prayer

Psalm 119:25 My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
Psalm 119:28 My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.
Psalm 119:41 May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
Psalm 119:76 May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.
Psalm 119:169 May my cry come before You, O LORD; give me understanding according to Your word.

Saints: Pray to be Conformed To

Psalm 119:133 Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.

Saints: Pray to be Taught

Psalm 119:12–13 Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes. …
Psalm 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
Psalm 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.

Saints: Regard, As Sweet

Psalm 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Saints: Rejoice In

Psalm 119:162 I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.

Saints: Speak of

Psalm 119:172 My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.

Saints: Stand in Awe of

Psalm 119:161 Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
Isaiah 66:2 Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

Saints: Trust In

Psalm 119:42 Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

should be Appealed To

1 Corinthians 1:31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
1 Peter 1:16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

should be Believed

John 2:22 After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

should be Known

2 Timothy 3:15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

should be Laid up in the Heart

Deuteronomy 6:6 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
Deuteronomy 11:18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

should be not Handled Deceitfully

2 Corinthians 4:2 Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

should be not Only Heard, but Obeyed

Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Luke 11:28 But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
James 1:22 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

should be Read

Deuteronomy 17:19 It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
Isaiah 34:16 Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

should be Read Publicly to All

Deuteronomy 31:11–13 when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel. …
Nehemiah 8:3 So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
Jeremiah 36:6 so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of …
Acts 13:15 After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.”

should be Received with Meekness

James 1:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

should be Received, not As the Word of Men, but As the Word of God

1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.

should be Searched

John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
John 7:52 “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”

should be Searched Daily

Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

should be Talked of Continually

Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

should be Taught to All

2 Chronicles 17:7–9 In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah, …
Nehemiah 8:7–8 The Levites — Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah — instructed the people in the Law as they stood in their places. …

should be Taught to Children

Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 11:19 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
2 Timothy 3:15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

should be The Standard of Teaching

1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the …

should Be used Against Our Spiritual Enemies

Matthew 4:4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:7 Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Matthew 4:10 “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Testify of Christ

John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
Acts 10:43 All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
Acts 18:28 For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

The Holy Spirit Enable Us to Understand

John 16:13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
1 Corinthians 2:10–14 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. …

The Letter of, Without the Spirit, Killeth

John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
2 Corinthians 3:6 And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

The Wicked: Corrupt

2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.

The Wicked: Frequently Wrest, to Their own Destruction

2 Peter 3:16 He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

The Wicked: Make, of None Effect Through Their Traditions

Mark 7:9–13 He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition. …

The Wicked: Obey Not

Psalm 119:158 I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.

The Wicked: Reject

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

The Wicked: Stumble At

1 Peter 2:8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word— and to this they were appointed.

They Who Search, are Truly Noble

Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

True

Psalm 119:160 The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

Work Effectually in Them That Believe

1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.

Written for Our Instruction

Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.