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Our Relationship with Gods Word

Matthew 4:4New International Version (NIV)

4Jesus answered,It is written: Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.


16When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.


6they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.


75Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken:Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Mark 4:14-20New International Version (NIV)

14The farmer sows the word.15Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satancomes and takes away the word that was sown in them.16Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.17But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.18Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;19but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealthand the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.20Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a cropsome thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.

Mark 16:20New International Version (NIV)

20Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signsthat accompanied it.

Luke 2:17New International Version (NIV)

17When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child,


2just as they were handed down to us by those who from the firstwere eyewitnessesand servants of the word.


2during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,the word of God came to Johnson of Zechariahin the wilderness.


5One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,[a]the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God.


7That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed.


19What things?he asked.

About Jesus of Nazareth,they replied. He was a prophet,powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.

John 1:1New International Version (NIV)

1In the beginning was the Word,and the Word was with God,and the Word was God.


14The Word became fleshand made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of graceand truth.


24Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent mehas eternal lifeand will not be judgedbut has crossed over from death to life.


37I know that you are Abrahams descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,because you have no room for my word.


51Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.


55Though you do not know him,I know him.If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word.


38This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

Lord, who has believed our messageand to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?


48There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn themat the last day.


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

Jesus prays for the disciples


6I have revealed you[a]to those whom you gave meout of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.

John 17:14&17New International Version (NIV)

14I have given them your word and the world has hated them,for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 17Sanctify them by[a]the truth; your word is truth.

Acts 4:29New International Version (NIV)

29Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.


31After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken.And they were all filled with the Holy Spiritand spoke the word of Godboldly.


2So the Twelve gathered all the disciplestogether and said, It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of Godin order to wait on tables.


4Those who had been scatteredpreached the word wherever they went.


14When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samariahad accepted the word of God,they sent Peter and Johnto Samaria.


25After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lordand testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.


11The apostles and the believersthroughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

Acts 12:23-24New International Version (NIV)

23Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angelof the Lord struck him down,and he was eaten by worms and died.

24But the word of Godcontinued to spread and flourish.


5When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of Godin the Jewish synagogues.Johnwas with them as their helper.

6They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcererand false prophetnamed Bar-Jesus,7who was an attendant of the proconsul,Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.


46Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: We had to speak the word of God to you first.Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.47For this is what the Lord has commanded us:

I have made you[a]a light for the Gentiles,that you[b]may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.[c]

48When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord;and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

49The word of the Lordspread through the whole region.


6Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygiaand Galatia,having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.


32Now I commit you to Godand to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritanceamong all those who are sanctified.

Romans 10:8-9New International Version (NIV)

8But what does it say? The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,[a]that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:9If you declarewith your mouth, Jesus is Lord,and believein your heart that God raised him from the dead,you will be saved.

Romans 10:17Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

17So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).

Romans 10:17Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

17So faith comes from what is heard,and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

Romans 10:17New International Version (NIV)

17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:26New International Version (NIV)

26What then shall we say, brothers and sisters?When you come together, each of youhas a hymn,or a word of instruction,a revelation, a tongueor an interpretation.Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.


2By this gospel you are saved,if you hold firmlyto the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.


17Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit.On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity,as those sent from God.


2Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways;we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God.On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyones consciencein the sight of God.

Galatians 6:6New International Version (NIV)

6Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.

Ephesians 1:13New International Version (NIV)

13And you also were included in Christwhen you heard the message(word) of truth,the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal,the promised Holy Spirit,


26to make her holy,cleansing[a]her by the washingwith water through the word,


17Take the helmet of salvationand the sword of the Spirit,which is the word of God.

Philippians 1:14New International Version (NIV)

14And because of my chains,most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel(word) without fear.

Philippians 2:15B-16New International Version (NIV)

Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky16as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christthat I did not runor labor in vain.

Colossians 1:24-25New International Version (NIV)

24Now I rejoicein what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christs afflictions,for the sake of his body, which is the church.25I have become its servantby the commission God gave meto present to you the word of Godin its fullness

Colossians 3:16New International Version (NIV)

16Let the message(word) of Christdwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdomthrough psalms,hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

1 Thessalonians 2:13New International Version (NIV)

13And we also thank God continuallybecause, when you received the word of God,which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.

1 Timothy 4:4-5New International Version (NIV)

4For everything God created is good,and nothing is to be rejectedif it is received with thanksgiving,5because it is consecrated by the word of Godand prayer.

2 Timothy 2:9

9for which I am sufferingeven to the point of being chainedlike a criminal. But Gods wordis not chained.

2 Timothy 2:15New International Version (NIV)

15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.


16All Scripture (the word) is God-breathedand is useful for teaching,rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,


2Preachthe word;be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebukeand encouragewith great patience and careful instruction.

Hebrews 1:3New International Version (NIV)

3The Son is the radiance of Gods gloryand the exact representation of his being,sustaining all thingsby his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins,he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.


12For the word of Godis aliveand active.Sharper than any double-edged sword,it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.


12In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truthsof Gods word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!


24to Jesus the mediatorof a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

James 1:18New International Version (NIV)

18He chose to give us birththrough the word of truth,that we might be a kind of firstfruitsof all he created.

James 1:21-24New International Version (NIV)

21Therefore, get rid ofall moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you,which can save you.

22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

1 Peter 1:23-25New International Version (NIV)

23For you have been born again,not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,through the living and enduring word of God.24For,

All people 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 endures forever.[a]

And this is the word that was preached to you.

2 Peter 1:19New International Version (NIV)

19We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lightshining in a dark place, until the day dawnsand the morning starrises in your hearts.

2 Peter 1:21

For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they werecarriedalongby the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 3:5-7New International Version (NIV)

5But they deliberately forget that long ago by Gods wordthe heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.6By these waters also the world of that timewas deluged and destroyed.7By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,being kept for the day of judgmentand destruction of the ungodly.

1 John 1:1New International Version (NIV)

1That which was from the beginning,which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,which we have looked at and our hands have touchedthis we proclaim concerning the Word of life.


10If we claim we have not sinned,we make him out to be a liarand his word is not in us.


5But if anyone obeys his word,love for God[a]is truly made complete in them.This is how we knowwe are in him:


14I write to you, dear children,because you know the Father.I write to you, fathers,because you know him who is from the beginning.I write to you, young men,because you are strong,and the word of Godlives in you,and you have overcome the evil one.

Revelation 3:8New International Version (NIV)

8I know your deeds.See, I have placed before you an open doorthat no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.


9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underthe altarthe souls of those who had been slainbecause of the word of Godand the testimony they had maintained.

Revelation 12:10-11New International Version (NIV)

10Then I heard a loud voice in heavensay:

Now have come the salvationand the powerand the kingdom of our God,and the authority of his Messiah.For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,who accuses them before our God day and night,has been hurled down.11They triumphed overhimby the blood of the Lamband by the word of their testimony;they did not love their lives so muchas to shrink from death.


13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood,and his name is the Word of God


4I saw throneson which were seated those who had been given authority to judge.And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesusand because of the word of God. They[a]had not worshiped the beastor its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands.They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Isaiah 55:10-11New International Version (NIV)

10As the rainand the snowcome down from heaven,and do not return to itwithout watering the earthand making it bud and flourish,so that it yields seedfor the sower and bread for the eater,11so is my wordthat goes out from my mouth:It will not return to me empty,but will accomplish what I desireand achieve the purposefor which I sent it.

Psalm 119:105

Thy word is alampunto myfeet, and a light unto my path.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thywords unto my taste! yea, sweeter thanhoneyto my mouth!

Psalm 119:16

I willdelightmyself in thy statutes: I will not forget thyword.

John 10:27

Mysheeplisten to myvoice; I know them, and they follow me.

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