Hebrews 4:12
226 helpful votesFor 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.
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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.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
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.
so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
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.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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.
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
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.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
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 the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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.
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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.
Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.
Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is trustworthy.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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,
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. . . .
“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
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.
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.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
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.
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
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.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
For no word from God will ever fail.”
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world 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.
You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me. You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD. Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart. They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways. You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently. Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes! . . .
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.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
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.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
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.
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD. Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart. They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways. You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently. Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes! . . .
who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation. For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge. Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes. For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.” . . .
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