For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
strength | thoughts
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
life | equipment | serving
Your word is a lamp to my feet,
and a light for my path.
Psalm 119:105
light
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
James 1:22
obedience | listening
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word.
Psalm 119:9
holiness | equipment
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Luke 11:28
life | listening
The grass withers,
the flower fades;
but the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8
As for God, his way is perfect.
Yahweh’s word is tried.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 18:30
blameless | protection
Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 7:24
wisdom | listening | mind
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 24:35
reliability | heaven | end times
Do all things without complaining and arguing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, holding up the word of life.
Philippians 2:14-16a
holiness | life | blameless
The entrance of your words gives light.
It gives understanding to the simple.
Psalm 119:130
understanding | light
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”
Matthew 4:4
food | listening | bread
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
God
For Yahweh’s word is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
Psalm 33:4
reliability | truth
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.
John 7:38
faith | life
In God, I praise his word.
In God, I put my trust.
I will not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?
Psalm 56:4
trust | fear | praise
As newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow.
1 Peter 2:2
salvation | food | rebirth
For Yahweh gives wisdom.
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:6
wisdom
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
John 8:31-32
truth | following | addiction
You are my hiding place and my shield.
I hope in your word.
Psalm 119:114
hope | protection
So is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish that which I please,
and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Isaiah 55:11
speaking | reliability | fruitfulness
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:21
salvation | evil | conversion
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:3
suffering | life | food
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
truth | Jesus
You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me.
Your gentleness has made me great.
You have enlarged my steps under me,
My feet have not slipped.
Psalm 18:35-36
salvation | protection
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
John 15:7
reward | Jesus
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 1:3
sin | purification
Every word of God is flawless.
He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Proverbs 30:5
truth | protection
My son, attend to my words.
Turn your ear to my sayings.
Let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep them in the center of your heart.
Proverbs 4:20-21
listening | hear | obedience
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Colossians 3:16
learning | worship | gratitude
As for God, his way is perfect.
Yahweh’s word is tested.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
2 Samuel 22:31
blameless | protection
I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 119:11
heart | sin
For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
Romans 10:11
faith | reliability
All of your words are truth.
Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
Psalm 119:160
reliability | law
Having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
1 Peter 1:23
rebirth
I wait for Yahweh.
My soul waits.
I hope in his word.
Psalm 130:5
hope | soul
He sends his word, and heals them,
and delivers them from their graves.
Psalm 107:20
healing
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul.
Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalm 19:7
law | soul | wisdom
Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed,” says the Lord Yahweh.’
Ezekiel 12:28
reliability | obedience
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Matthew 13:22
worrying | money | temptation
Get wisdom.
Get understanding.
Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:5
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24
calling | faithfulness | promises
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
The years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 4:10
obedience | law | life
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 15:3
purification | speaking | evil
All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:3
creation | life
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
Matthew 5:18
reliability | law | heaven
Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.”
John 7:16
Jesus | learning
This saying is trustworthy:
“For if we died with him,
we will also live with him.”
2 Timothy 2:11
death | eternal life | reliability
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips.
I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job 23:12
law | speaking | obedience
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Ephesians 6:17
salvation | Spirit
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exodus 34:28
fasting | nearness | law
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:4
encouragement | hope
My doctrine will drop as the rain.
My speech will condense as the dew,
as the misty rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
Deuteronomy 32:2
learning
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:41
faith | baptism | church