Bible Verses About The Scriptures

These are the things we are talking about when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would dictate and instead use a manner of speaking taught by the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit.

Now the natural man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God — to him they are nonsense! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are evaluated through the Spirit.

These things happened to them as prefigurative historical events, and they were written down as a warning to us who are living in the acharit-hayamim.

For among the first things I passed on to you was what I also received, namely this: the Messiah died for our sins, in accordance with what the Tanakh says;

For we are not like a lot of folks who go about huckstering God’s message for a fee; on the contrary, we speak out of a sincere heart, as people sent by God, standing in God’s presence, living in union with the Messiah.

He has even made us competent to be workers serving a New Covenant, the essence of which is not a written text but the Spirit. For the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

Indeed, we refuse to make use of shameful underhanded methods, employing deception or distorting God’s message. On the contrary, by making very clear what the truth is, we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

For everyone who depends on legalistic observance of Torah commands lives under a curse, since it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the Scroll of the Torah.”

in order to set it apart for God, making it clean through immersion in the mikveh, so to speak,

Use all the armor and weaponry that God provides, so that you will be able to stand against the deceptive tactics of the Adversary.

And take the helmet of deliverance; along with the sword given by the Spirit, that is, the Word of God;

let the Word of the Messiah, in all its richness, live in you, as you teach and counsel each other in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude to God in your hearts.

Another reason we regularly thank God is that when you heard the Word of God from us, you received it not merely as a human word, but as it truly is, God’s Word, which is at work in you believers.

and recalling too how from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which can give you the wisdom that leads to deliverance through trusting in Yeshua the Messiah.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching the truth, convicting of sin, correcting faults and training in right living;

thus anyone who belongs to God may be fully equipped for every good work.

Therefore, as the Ruach HaKodesh says, “Today, if you hear God’s voice,

See, the Word of God is alive! It is at work and is sharper than any double-edged sword — it cuts right through to where soul meets spirit and joints meet marrow, and it is quick to judge the inner reflections and attitudes of the heart.

Having made his decision, he gave birth to us through a Word that can be relied upon, in order that we should be a kind of firstfruits of all that he created.

So rid yourselves of all vulgarity and obvious evil, and receive meekly the Word implanted in you that can save your lives.

Don’t deceive yourselves by only hearing what the Word says, but do it!

For whoever hears the Word but doesn’t do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,

But if a person looks closely into the perfect Torah, which gives freedom, and continues, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work it requires, then he will be blessed in what he does.

since the Tanakh says, “You are to be holy because I am holy.”

You have been born again not from some seed that will decay, but from one that cannot decay, through the living Word of God that lasts forever.