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100 Bible Verses about The Word

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 312 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.

John 1:1 ESV / 238 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 225 helpful votes

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

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 216 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.’”

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 193 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.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 188 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.

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 188 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.

John 1:14 ESV / 172 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 169 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 163 helpful votes

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

John 17:17 ESV / 162 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 6:63 ESV / 154 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 15:3 ESV / 150 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 149 helpful votes

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

Luke 11:28 ESV / 141 helpful votes

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 131 helpful votes

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

James 1:22 ESV / 128 helpful votes

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

James 1:21 ESV / 127 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 125 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 124 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 121 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 118 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.

Job 23:12 ESV / 117 helpful votes

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 109 helpful votes

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

John 8:31-32 ESV / 105 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Romans 15:4 ESV / 102 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.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 101 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.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 101 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 98 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.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 96 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 / 95 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 94 helpful votes

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 93 helpful votes

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

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 89 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 86 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,

Psalm 119:18 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 80 helpful votes

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

Luke 24:45 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 78 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 77 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

James 1:26 ESV / 75 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

2 Timothy 3:15-17 ESV / 75 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 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.

John 10:35 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Psalm 33:4 ESV / 75 helpful votes

For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.

John 3:16 ESV / 74 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.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 72 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Psalm 119:160 ESV / 72 helpful votes

The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 71 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 18:30 ESV / 71 helpful votes

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 70 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Psalm 119:130 ESV / 68 helpful votes

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

Psalm 56:4 ESV / 68 helpful votes

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Jeremiah 23:29 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 66 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.

Psalm 12:6 ESV / 65 helpful votes

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Matthew 12:37 ESV / 64 helpful votes

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

James 3:5 ESV / 63 helpful votes

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 63 helpful votes

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 63 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Proverbs 30:5-6 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 63 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 62 helpful votes

As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 60 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 60 helpful votes

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

1 Peter 1:25 ESV / 59 helpful votes

But the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

John 1:1-2 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:114 ESV / 56 helpful votes

You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.

John 5:24 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

John 5:39 ESV / 52 helpful votes

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

Acts 2:41 ESV / 51 helpful votes

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Psalm 18:35-36 ESV / 51 helpful votes

You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 50 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.

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Proverbs 18:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Romans 10:1-11:36 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...

Hebrews 1:1 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 46 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.

John 12:48 ESV / 46 helpful votes

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Psalm 119:1-130:8 ESV / 46 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! ...

Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

Revelation 1:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Psalm 141:3 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

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