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What does the Bible say about studying the bible?

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The Bible teaches that believers should diligently receive, study, treasure, and obey God’s Word, trusting it to make them wise, faithful, and equipped for every good work. Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, correction, and training in righteousness, so that God’s servants may be complete (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Joshua 1:8 calls God’s people to meditate on the Book day and night, while Psalm 119 describes the Word as a lamp for life and a safeguard against sin. We should seek the Lord to open our eyes to His truth (Psalm 119:18), rightly handle it (2 Timothy 2:15), and pass it on within our homes and communities (Deuteronomy 11:18-23).

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  • 2 Timothy 3:16-17 9 votes

    Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  • Joshua 1:8 6 votes

    This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

  • 2 Timothy 3:14-17 5 votes

    But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  • Psalms 119:105 5 votes

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

  • Psalms 119:11 4 votes

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

  • 2 Timothy 2:15 4 votes

    Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

  • Proverbs 3:1-2 4 votes

    My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

  • 1 Peter 3:15 3 votes

    But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

  • Psalms 119:18 3 votes

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

  • Deuteronomy 11:18-23 3 votes

    Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates; that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him— then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

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