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Scriptures, the

The Scriptures are God's inspired, authoritative Word given to reveal His character, redemptive plan, and will for believers' lives. They are the foundation of Christian faith and practice, sufficient for salvation and spiritual growth.

Overview

Scripture is God's written revelation to humanity, preserved and transmitted through the biblical books. The Psalms declare that God's law is "more desirable than gold" and "sweeter also than honey" (Psalm 19:11, ESV). These writings have been entrusted to God's people and serve as the authoritative guide for faith and conduct throughout the ages.

Key Scriptures

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16-17, ESV).

"For to us a child is born... and the testimony about Jesus in the Scriptures must be believed to escape judgment" (Luke 16:29-31, paraphrased). "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever" (Isaiah 40:8, NIV).

Application

Prioritize daily Scripture reading and meditation, allowing God's Word to transform your thinking and direct your decisions.

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Advantage of possessing

All should desire to hear

Are able to make wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus

Are an unerring guide

Are full and sufficient

Are profitable both for doctrine and practice

Believed

Blessedness of hearing and obeying

Book of the Lord

Building up in the faith

Christ enables us to understand

Christ sanctioned, by appealing to them

Christ taught out of

Cleansing the heart

Cleansing the ways

Contain the promises of the gospel

Converting the soul

Delight in

Denunciations against those who add to, or take from

Esteem, above all things

Esteem, as a light

Everything should be tried by

Frequently wrest, to their own destruction

Given by inspiration of God

Given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit

Grieve when men disobey

Hide, in their hearts

Ignorance of, a source of error

Illuminating

Intended for the use of all men

Keep, in remembrance

Keeping from destructive paths

Let them dwell richly in you

Long after

Make, of none effect through their traditions

Making wise the simple

Mere hearers of, deceive themselves

No prophecy of, is of any private interpretation

Not handled deceitfully

Nothing to be taken from, or added to

One portion of, to be compared with another

Pray to be conformed to

Producing faith

Promoting growth in grace

Quick and powerful

Received with meekness

Received, not as the word of men, but as the word of God

Regard, as sweet

Reveal the laws, statutes, and judgments of God

Scripture of truth

Searched daily

Stumble at

Sword of the Spirit

Talked of continually

The letter of, without the spirit, killeth

The standard of teaching

They who search, are truly noble

Word of Christ

Word of truth

Work effectually in them that believe

Written for our instruction