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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.

✦ Scripture References 40 references
✦ Topical Scripture Breakdown 201 verses
Admonishing
Advantage of possessing
All should desire to hear
Appealed to
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
Book of the law
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
Comforting
Contain the promises of the gospel
Converting the soul
Corrupt
Delight in
Denunciations against those who add to, or take from
Destruction of, punished
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
Holy Scriptures
Hope in
Ignorance of, a source of error
Illuminating
Intended for the use of all men
Keep, in remembrance
Keeping from destructive paths
Known
Laid up in the heart
Law of the Lord
Let them dwell richly in you
Long after
Love exceedingly
Make, of none effect through their traditions
Making wise the simple
Meditate in
Mere hearers of, deceive themselves
No prophecy of, is of any private interpretation
Not handled deceitfully
Not only heard, but obeyed
Nothing to be taken from, or added to
Obey
Obey not
One portion of, to be compared with another
Oracles of God
Perfect
Plead the promises of, in prayer
Pray to be conformed to
Pray to be taught
Precious
Producing faith
Producing hope
Producing obedience
Promoting growth in grace
Pure
Quick and powerful
Quickening
Read
Read publicly to ALL
Received with meekness
Received, not as the word of men, but as the word of God
Record divine prophecies
Regard, as sweet
Regenerating
Reject
Rejoice in
Rejoicing the heart
Reveal the laws, statutes, and judgments of God
Sanctifying
Scripture of truth
Searched
Searched daily
Speak of
Stand in awe of
Stumble at
Supporting life
Sword of the Spirit
Talked of continually
Taught to ALL
Taught to children
Testify of Christ
The Holy Spirit enable us to understand
The letter of, without the spirit, killeth
The standard of teaching
They who search, are truly noble
True
Trust in
Used against our spiritual enemies
Word
Word of Christ
Word of God
Word of truth
Work effectually in them that believe
Written for our instruction