Word of God
295 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
33 sections
- Called: Book
- Called: Book of the Law
- Called: Book of the Lord
- Called: Good Word of God
- Called: Holy Scriptures
- Called: Law of the Lord
- Called: Oracles of God
- Called: Scriptures
- Called: Scriptures of Truth
- Called: Sword of the Spirit
- Called: The Word
- Called: Word of Christ
- Called: Word of God
- Called: Word of Life
- Called: Word of Truth
- Compared: To a Two-Edged Sword
- Compared: To Seed
- Conviction of Sin from Reading
- Expounded
- Fulfilled by Jesus
- Inspiration of
- Not to be Added To, or Taken From
- Not to be Handled Deceitfully
- Searched
- Searching of, Commanded
- Taught by the Apostles
- Testify of Jesus
- Texts of, to be Written on Door-Posts
- The People Stood and Responded by Saying “Amen”
- The Standard of the Judgment
- To be Read Publicly
- Unbelief In
- Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
Called: Book
- Psalm 40:7 Then I said, “Here I am, I have come — it is written about me in the scroll:
- Revelation 22:19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.
Called: Book of the Law
- 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.
- Galatians 3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Called: Book of the Lord
- 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.
Called: Good Word of God
- Hebrews 6:5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age —
Called: Holy Scriptures
- Romans 1:2 the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,
- 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.
Called: Law of the Lord
- Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
- Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Called: Oracles of God
- Romans 3:2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
- 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 …
Called: Scriptures
- 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,
Called: Scriptures of Truth
- Daniel 10:21 But first I will tell you what is inscribed in the Book of Truth. Yet no one has the courage to support me against these, except Michael your prince.
Called: Sword of the Spirit
- Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Called: The Word
- James 1:21–23 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. …
- 1 Peter 2:2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
Called: Word of Christ
- 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.
Called: Word of God
- Luke 11:28 But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- 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.
Called: Word of Life
- Philippians 2:16 as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
Called: Word of Truth
- 2 Timothy 2:15 Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
- 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.
Compared: To a Two-Edged Sword
- 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.
Compared: To Seed
- Matthew 13:3–8 And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed. …
- Matthew 13:18–23 Consider, then, the parable of the sower: …
- Matthew 13:37–38 He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. …
- Mark 4:3–20 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. …
- Mark 4:26–32 Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. …
- Luke 8:5–15 “A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it. …
Conviction of Sin from Reading
- 2 Kings 22:9–13 And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.” …
- 2 Chronicles 17:7–10 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, …
- 2 Chronicles 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
Expounded
- Nehemiah 8:8 So they read from the Book of the Law of God, explaining it and giving insight, so that the people could understand what was being read.
Fulfilled by Jesus
- Matthew 5:17 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.
- Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
- John 19:24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.
Inspiration of
- Exodus 19:7 So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.
- Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words:
- Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 24:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
- Exodus 25:21 Set the mercy seat atop the ark and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
- Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
- Exodus 34:27 The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
- Exodus 34:32 And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
- Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
- Deuteronomy 31:22 So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 17:13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you …
- 2 Chronicles 33:18 As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
- 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.
- Psalm 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
- Psalm 99:7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
- Psalm 147:19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
- Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
- Isaiah 30:12–13 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit, …
- 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.
- Isaiah 59:21 “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, …
- Jeremiah 30:2 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
- Jeremiah 36:1–2 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: …
- Jeremiah 36:27–28 After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: …
- Jeremiah 36:32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words …
- Jeremiah 51:59–64 This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign. …
- Ezekiel 11:25 I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
- Daniel 10:21 But first I will tell you what is inscribed in the Book of Truth. Yet no one has the courage to support me against these, except Michael your prince.
- Hosea 8:12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
- Zechariah 7:12 They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
- Matthew 22:31–32 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you: …
- Luke 1:1–4 Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, …
- Luke 1:68–73 “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people. …
- 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.
- Acts 28:25 They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
- Romans 3:1–2 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? …
- 1 Corinthians 2:12–13 We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord’s command.
- Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1–3 Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more. …
- 1 Timothy 6:3–5 If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching, …
- 2 Timothy 3:16–17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, …
- Hebrews 1:1–2 On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. …
- Hebrews 3:7–8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, …
- 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.
- Hebrews 5:12 Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
- 1 Peter 1:11–12 trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. …
- 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.
- 2 Peter 3:2 by recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
- 2 Peter 3:15 Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.
- 1 John 1:1–5 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands — this is the Word of life. …
- Revelation 1:1–2 This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, …
- Revelation 1:11 saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- Revelation 1:17–19 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, …
- Revelation 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
- Revelation 19:10 So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
- Revelation 22:6–8 Then the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.” …
Not to be Added To, or Taken From
- 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.
- 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. …
Not to be 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.
Searched
- 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.
Searching of, Commanded
Taught by the Apostles
- Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
- Acts 3:1 One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
- Acts 8:32 The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- Acts 8:35 Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
- 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.
- Acts 17:2 As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
- Acts 18:24 Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.
- Acts 28:23 So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
Testify of Jesus
- 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,
Texts of, to be Written on Door-Posts
- Deuteronomy 6:9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
- Deuteronomy 11:20 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,
The People Stood and Responded by Saying “Amen”
- Nehemiah 8:5–6 Ezra opened the book in full view of all the people, since he was standing above them all, and as he opened it, all the people stood up. …
- Exodus 24:7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
- Deuteronomy 27:12–26 “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. …
The Standard of the Judgment
- John 12:48 There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
- Romans 2:16 on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
To be Read Publicly
- 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. …
- Joshua 8:33–35 All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of …
- 2 Kings 23:2 And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets— all the people small and great— and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant …
- 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 8:1–8 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. …
- Nehemiah 8:13 On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law.
- Nehemiah 8:18 Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Colossians 4:16 After this letter has been read among you, make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:27 I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.
Unbelief In
- Psalm 50:16–17 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? …
- Proverbs 1:29–30 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD. …
- Proverbs 13:13 He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.
- Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and …
- Isaiah 28:9–14 Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast? …
- Isaiah 30:9–11 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. …
- Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
- Jeremiah 6:10 To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
- 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?
- Hosea 8:12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
- Amos 2:12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
- Micah 2:6 “Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
- Luke 16:31 Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
- Luke 24:25 Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
- John 3:20 Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
- John 5:46–47 If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me. …
- John 8:37 I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
- John 8:45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
- 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:22–23 Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom, …
- 2 Timothy 3:8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
- 2 Timothy 4:3–4 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. …
- 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.
- 2 Peter 3:15–16 Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him. …
- Revelation 22:19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.
Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Exodus 13:9 It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
- 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.” …
- 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 4:5–6 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 4:8 And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
- Deuteronomy 4:10 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 6:6–9 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. …
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 11:18–21 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. …
- Deuteronomy 17:18–19 When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. …
- Deuteronomy 27:2–3 And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster. …
- Deuteronomy 27:8 And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”
- Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
- Deuteronomy 30:11–14 For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. …
- Deuteronomy 31:9–13 So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel. …
- Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
- Deuteronomy 31:21 And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the …
- Deuteronomy 31:26 “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
- Joshua 1:8 This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
- Joshua 3:9 So Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”
- Joshua 8:32–35 And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. …
- 2 Samuel 22:31 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
- 1 Chronicles 16:15 Remember His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
- 2 Chronicles 15:3 For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
- Job 22:22 Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
- 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.
- Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
- Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
- Psalm 17:4 As for the deeds of men — by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
- Psalm 18:30 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
- Psalm 19:7–11 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple. …
- Psalm 33:4 For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is trustworthy.
- Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
- Psalm 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.
- Psalm 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- Psalm 43:3 Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.
- Psalm 56:4 In God, whose word I praise — in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
- Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
- Psalm 78:7–8 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments. …
- Psalm 85:8 I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
- Psalm 93:5 Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
- Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- Psalm 102:18 Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
- Psalm 107:19–20 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. …
- Psalm 111:7–8 The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy. …
- Psalm 119:9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
- Psalm 119:11–12 I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You. …
- Psalm 119:14–16 I rejoice in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches. …
- Psalm 119:18–20 Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law. …
- Psalm 119:23–25 Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes. …
- Psalm 119:28 My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.
- Psalm 119:30–31 I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me. …
- Psalm 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
- Psalm 119:35 Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
- Psalm 119:41 May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
- Psalm 119:45–52 And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts. …
- Psalm 119:54 Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
- Psalm 119:61 Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.
- Psalm 119:66–67 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments. …
- Psalm 119:70 Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.
- Psalm 119:72 The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
- Psalm 119:74 May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
- Psalm 119:76–78 May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant. …
- Psalm 119:81–83 My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word. …
- Psalm 119:86 All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause— help me!
- Psalm 119:89 Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
- Psalm 119:92–93 If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction. …
- Psalm 119:96–100 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit. …
- Psalm 119:103–105 How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth! …
- Psalm 119:109 I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.
- Psalm 119:111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- Psalm 119:113 The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.
- Psalm 119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
- Psalm 119:119 All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.
- Psalm 119:127–131 Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold. …
- Psalm 119:133 Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
- Psalm 119:138 The testimonies You have laid down are righteous and altogether faithful.
- Psalm 119:140–144 Your promise is completely pure; therefore Your servant loves it. …
- Psalm 119:148 My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
- Psalm 119:151–153 You are near, O LORD, and all Your commandments are true. …
- Psalm 119:157–163 Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies. …
- Psalm 119:165 Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.
- Psalm 119:167 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.
- Psalm 119:172–174 My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous. …
- Psalm 138:2 I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
- Psalm 147:15 He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
- Psalm 147:19–20 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel. …
- Proverbs 6:20–23 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. …
- Proverbs 22:21 to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?
- Proverbs 30:5–6 Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. …
- Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10–11 The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth. …
- Isaiah 2:3 And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word …
- Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.
- 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.
- Isaiah 28:13 Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- Isaiah 30:21 And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- 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.
- Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- Isaiah 51:7 Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
- Isaiah 55:10–11 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, …
- 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?
- Jeremiah 13:15 Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 22:29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
- Jeremiah 23:28–29 Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD. …
- Jeremiah 23:36 But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
- Ezekiel 3:3 “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
- Ezekiel 3:10 “Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.
- Ezekiel 44:5 The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the …
- Daniel 8:26 The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
- Daniel 10:21 But first I will tell you what is inscribed in the Book of Truth. Yet no one has the courage to support me against these, except Michael your prince.
- Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
- Daniel 12:9 “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
- Hosea 6:5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
- Amos 8:11–13 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land — not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. …
- Micah 2:7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
- Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
- Zechariah 7:7 Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
- 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 5:17 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.
- Matthew 7:24–25 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. …
- Matthew 11:13 For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
- Matthew 11:15 He who has ears, let him hear.
- Matthew 13:23 But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
- Matthew 13:33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
- Matthew 15:3 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
- Matthew 15:9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
- Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
- Mark 4:20 Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop — thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”
- Mark 7:7 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’
- Mark 7:9 He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
- Mark 7:13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
- Mark 12:24 Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
- Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Luke 4:22 All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His lips. “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” they asked.
- Luke 6:47–48 I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them: …
- Luke 8:11–15 Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. …
- Luke 11:28 But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- Luke 16:17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
- Luke 16:29 But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
- Luke 16:31 Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
- Luke 24:32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
- Luke 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
- 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.
- John 5:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
- 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 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- John 8:31–32 So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. …
- John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came — and the Scripture cannot be broken —
- John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
- John 17:8 For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
- John 17:14 I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
- John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
- John 17:19–20 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth. …
- 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.
- Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
- 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.
- 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.
- Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- Acts 26:22 But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
- Romans 3:1–2 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? …
- Romans 4:23–24 Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham, …
- Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
- Romans 9:4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
- Romans 9:6 It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
- Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
- Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- 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.
- 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 —
- 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.
- 1 Corinthians 7:6 I say this as a concession, not as a command.
- 1 Corinthians 7:10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.
- 1 Corinthians 9:10 Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.
- 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.
- 1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
- 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,
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.