100 Benefits of Engaging With the Word of God

“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”

“I weep with sorrow; encourage me by your word.”

“This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.”

“I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.”

“I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.”

“Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.”

“The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.”

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”

“Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.”

“I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.”

“Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.”

“My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.”

“Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.”

“Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.”

“Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.”

“Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”

“My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.”

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

“I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.”

“I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.”

“Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.”

“Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.”

“The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.”

“How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”

“Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.”

“I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.”

“The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.”

“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”

“Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”

“Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.”

“Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.”

“Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.”

“I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.”

“I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.”

“Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.”

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

“The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand.”

“For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:”

“Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.”

“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

“Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.”

“Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.”

“I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.”

“I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.”

“The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.”

“Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.”

“When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.”

“Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.”

“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”

“Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.”

“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”

“Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”

“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”

“I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.”

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”

“But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”

“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.”

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,”

“For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.”

“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”

“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

“And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”

“And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?”

“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”

“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”

“Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”

“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

“Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.”

“Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.”

“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”

“For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

“That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

“But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

“I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.”

“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”

“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

“Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.”

“My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.”

“I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.”

“Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

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

“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:”

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.”

“But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”

“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”