What Does the Bible Say About Reading The Bible?

Romans 15:4 ESV / 63 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 119:105 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 45 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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes

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

Job 23:12 ESV / 31 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.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 15 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 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 14 helpful votes

To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

John 5:39 ESV / 13 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,

Luke 11:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 10 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.

1 Peter 1:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

James 1:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

John 20:19-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.” ...

Psalm 12:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 7 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.

Psalm 119:97-100 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 6 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.

John 6:63 ESV / 6 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.

Luke 24:45 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:103 ESV / 6 helpful votes

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 37:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.

Psalm 19:7-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 5 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.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

John 15:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

John 14:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 5 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.

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Deuteronomy 11:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

2 Peter 1:3-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. ...

1 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

1 Thessalonians 5:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.

Colossians 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 13:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

Matthew 13:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 4 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. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

1 Samuel 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

John 6:67-71 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

John 6:50-71 ESV / 3 helpful votes

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ...

John 3:1-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 22:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:

Psalm 14:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

61 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible

Romans 15:4 ESV / 63 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 23:12 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:39 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 20:19-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 12:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:97-100 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 6:63 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:45 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:103 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 10:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 6:67-71 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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