What’s the big deal about the scriptures?

Scriptures

 

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 18 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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes

 

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

Romans 15:4 ESV / 13 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.

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 8 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.

Psalm 119:160 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

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

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 7 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.

Matthew 5:19 ESV / 6 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.

Revelation 22:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...

John 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

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

Luke 10:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Matthew 22:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Psalm 110:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

A Psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“You shall not murder.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

 

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

 

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

 

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...