Surge Up with God’s Word

WORD OF GOD. Called Book, Psa. 40:7; Rev. 22:19; Book of the Lord, Isa. 34:16; Book of the Law, Neh. 8:3; Gal. 3:10; Good Word of God, Heb. 6:5; Holy Scriptures, Rom. 1:2; 2 Tim. 3:15; Law of the Lord, Psa. 1:2; Isa. 30:9; Oracles of God, Rom. 3:2; 1 Pet. 4:11; Scriptures, 1 Cor. 15:3; Scriptures of Truth, Dan. 10:21; Sword of the Spirit, Eph. 6:17; The Word, Ja. 1:21-23; 1 Pet. 2:2; Word of God, Luke 11:28; Heb. 4:12; Word of Christ, Col. 3:16; Word of Life, Phil. 2:16; Word of Truth, 2 Tim. 2:15; Ja. 1:18. Likened to seed, Matt. 13:3-8,18-23,37,38; Mark 4:3-20,26-32; Luke 8:5-15; to a two-edged sword, Heb. 4:12. To be read publicly, Deut. 31:11-13; Josh. 8:33-35; 2 Kin. 23:2; 2 Chr. 17:7-9; Neh. 8:1-8,13,18; Jer. 36:6; Acts 13:15,27; Col. 4:16; 1 Thess. 5:27. The people stood and responded by saying, "Amen,'' Neh. 8:5,6; Ex. 24:7; Deut. 27:12-26. Expounded, Neh. 8:8; by Jesus, Luke 4:16-27; 24:27,45. Searched, Acts 17:11. Searching of, enjoined, John 5:39; 7:52. Texts of, to be written on doorposts, Deut. 6:9; 11:20. Not to be added to, or taken from, Deut. 4:2; 12:32; Rev. 22:18,19. Conviction of sin from reading, 2 Kin. 22:9-13; 2 Chr. 17:7-10; 34. Fulfilled by Jesus, Matt. 5:17; Luke 24:27; John 19:24. Testify of Jesus, John 5:39; Acts 10:43; 18:28; 1 Cor. 15:3.

See Jesus, Prophecies Concerning. Taught by the apostles, Acts 2; 3; 8:32,35; 13:27; 17:2; 18:24; 28:23. The standard of the judgment, John 12:48; Rom. 2:16. Not to be handled deceitfully, 2 Cor. 4:2.

Joshua 1 ⁸ Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Isaiah 30 ²¹ Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."

Job 22 ²² Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.

Job 23 ¹² I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

Proverbs 6  Warning Against Adultery
²⁰ My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching. ²¹ Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck. ²² When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you. ²³ For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,

Psalm 94 ¹² Blessed is the man you discipline, O Lord , the man you teach from your law;

Habakkuk 2 The Lord 's Answer
² Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.

Colossians 1 ⁵the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel

1 Thessalonians 2 ¹³And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

Hebrews 2 Warning to Pay Attention

¹We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. ²For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, ³how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

Hebrews 4 ²For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

1 Corinthians 15 ³For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

James 1 ¹⁸He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

1 Peter 1 ²³For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, ²⁵but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.

1 Peter 2 ²Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

2 Peter 1
⁴Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

2 Peter 1 ¹⁹And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. ²¹For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 3 The Day of the Lord

¹Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.

2 Peter 3 ²I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

1 John 1 Walking in the light

⁵This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

John 15 ³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Galatians 1 Paul Called by God

¹¹I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up.

Ephesians 1 ¹³And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,

Colossians 3 ¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly 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.

Mark 13 ³¹Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Isaiah 55 ⁸ "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord . ⁹ "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. ¹⁰ As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, ¹¹ so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. ¹² You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

1 Thessalonians 4 Living to Please God

¹Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.