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100 Bible Verses about Teaching The Word

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 323 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 297 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 292 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

James 3:1 ESV / 276 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 268 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 192 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Romans 10:17 ESV / 185 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

John 14:26 ESV / 175 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 171 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

John 17:17 ESV / 152 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 150 helpful votes

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

John 16:13 ESV / 142 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 137 helpful votes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Luke 6:40 ESV / 135 helpful votes

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 125 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Titus 2:7-8 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 119 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 118 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

2 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 112 helpful votes

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 108 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

John 1:1 ESV / 107 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 105 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 105 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ...

Romans 12:6-7 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 90 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 89 helpful votes

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 85 helpful votes

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.

James 1:5 ESV / 83 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Acts 18:11 ESV / 80 helpful votes

And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Matthew 5:19 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

2 Timothy 1:11 ESV / 78 helpful votes

For which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,

James 3:1-2 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Romans 12:7 ESV / 71 helpful votes

If service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 71 helpful votes

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 70 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Galatians 6:6 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.

Psalm 119:99 ESV / 68 helpful votes

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

John 3:16 ESV / 66 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 13:13 ESV / 65 helpful votes

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

Matthew 10:24 ESV / 65 helpful votes

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

James 1:21 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Exodus 18:20 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do.

Psalm 119:130 ESV / 61 helpful votes

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

Titus 1:11 ESV / 59 helpful votes

They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

John 14:6 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 58 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 57 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

James 1:22 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 7:38 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 55 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

1 Chronicles 25:8 ESV / 55 helpful votes

And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 50 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Luke 13:10 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

Matthew 23:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 49 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 47 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Titus 1:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes

He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Psalm 34:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Acts 20:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

Acts 5:42 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 44 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 43 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 42 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Romans 2:21 ESV / 41 helpful votes

You then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 41 helpful votes

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 40 helpful votes

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 39 helpful votes

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Luke 24:27 ESV / 39 helpful votes

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

John 10:35 ESV / 38 helpful votes

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

1 Timothy 4:11 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Command and teach these things.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Deuteronomy 4:9-10 ESV / 37 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children— how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 35 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

Acts 11:26 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Romans 8:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Deuteronomy 4:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes

How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

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