18 Bible Verses about Use Of The Scriptures

For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our instruction; that by patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Then opened he thoroughly their understanding, that they should understand the scriptures,

Search the scriptures; for ye suppose in them ye have eternal life: and these are they which testify of me.

Though not even yet had they known the scripture, that he should rise from the dead.

The portion of scripture which he had been reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before him who sheareth it is dumb, so he opened not his mouth:

Then Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from that scripture, preached to him Jesus.

And Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them, and for three sabbaths he reasoned with them from the scriptures,

But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

If indeed ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, of which some are difficult to be understood, which the uninstructed and the unstable torture, as indeed they do the rest of the scriptures unto their own destruction.

Much in every view: the principal one indeed is, that the oracles of God were entrusted to them.

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, who was powerful in the Scriptures, had come to Ephesus.

Jesus then answering, said unto them, Ye are in an error, from not knowing the Scriptures, and the power of God.

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, from not knowing the scriptures, and the power of God?

For Moses for ages past in every city hath those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

Then after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogues sent to them, saying, Men and brethren, if ye are disposed to give a word of exhortation to the people, speak.

Now these were more liberally minded men than those of Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, daily, examining the Scriptures if these things were really so.