BIBLE/SCRIPTURE/WORD

Importance GOD gives to Word

  • I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name. Ps 138:2 NKJV
  • I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all elsePs 138:2 BSB

Benefits

Avoid Error

  • Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29 ESV
  • Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. Matthew 22:29 HCSB
  • Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29 NKJV

Cleanses

  • cleansing her (the church i.e. believers) by the washing with water through the word Ephesians 5:26 BSB

Enlightenment

  • The unfolding of your words gives light Psalm 119:130 NIV
  • The entrance of Your words gives light Psalm 119:130 NKJV

Life & Health

  • My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. Pro 4:20-22 NKJV

Peace

  • Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. Ps 119:165 NKJV
  • Those who love Your Law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble. Ps 119:165 NASB

Prosperity & Success

  • This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe 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. Joshua 1:8 NKJV

Reverence for GOD

  • Establish Your word and confirm Your promise to Your servant, As that which produces [awe-inspired] reverence for You. Ps 119:38 AMP
  • Establish Your word to Your servant, to produce reverence for You. Ps 119:38 BSB

Revives

Salvation

  • receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21 NKJV
  • having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever 1 Peter 1:23 NKJV
  • He gave us birth [as sons] by [His] Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures [a sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself]. James 1:18 AMP

Understanding & Insight

  • I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word], For Your testimonies are my meditation. Ps 119:99 AMP

Word is alive

  • the word of God is living and active and full of power [making it operative, energizing, and effective]. Heb 4:12a AMP
  • the word of God is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its inherent, supernatural power in those of faith]. 1 Thess 2:13 AMP

The Word can be alive in you

  • I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 1 John 2:14 NIV

Meditate on Word

  • But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates1,2 day and night. Psalms 1:2 NKJV 
  • This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate2 in it day and night, that you may observe 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. Joshua 1:8 NKJV

1ponders by talking to himself (NKJV)

21897  הגה
[hâgâh] \haw-gaw’\
A primitive root (compare 1901); to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication to ponder: – {imagine} {meditate} {mourn} {mutter} {roar} X {sore} {speak} {study} {talk} utter.

Memorise the Word

  • Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee. Ps 119:11 ASV
  • 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. Col 3:16 NKJV

Word Types

Ref: Strong’s Bible dictionary

  • 3056 λόγος [LO/GOS] {lógos} \log’-os\
    from 3004; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):–account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work. Eg. John 1:1
  • 4487 ῥῆμα [R(H=MA] {rhēma} \hray’-mah\
    from 4483; an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever:–+ evil, + nothing, saying, word. Eg Matthew 4:4
  • 1697 דּבר [dâbâr] \daw-bawr’\ From 1696; a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) of thing; adverbially a cause: – {act} {advice} {affair} {answer} X any such ({thing}) + because {of} {book} {business} {care} {case} {cause} certain {rate} + {chronicles} {commandment} X commune ({-ication}) + concern {[-ing]} + {confer} {counsel} + {dearth} {decree} {deed} X {disease} {due} {duty} {effect} + {eloquent} {errand} [evil favoured-] {ness} + {glory} + {harm} {hurt} + {iniquity} + {judgment} {language} + {lying} {manner} {matter} {message} [no] {thing} {oracle} X {ought} X {parts} + {pertaining} + {please} {portion} + {power} {promise} {provision} {purpose} {question} {rate} {reason} {report} {request} X (as hast) {said} {sake} {saying} {sentence} + {sign} + {so} some {[uncleanness]} somewhat to {say} + {song} {speech} X {spoken} {talk} {task} + {that} X there {done} thing ({concerning}) {thought} + {thus} {tidings} what {[-soever]} + {wherewith} {which} {word} work. Eg Ezek 33:7
  • നിന്റെ വചനങ്ങളുടെ വികാശനം പ്രകാശപ്രദം ആകുന്നു; അതു അല്പബുദ്ധികളെ ബുദ്ധിമാന്മാരാക്കുന്നു. സങ്കീർത്തനങ്ങൾ 119:130
  •  ദൈവത്തിന്റെ വചനം ജീവനും ചൈതന്യവുമുള്ളതായി ഇരുവായ്ത്തലയുള്ള ഏതു വാളിനെക്കാളും മൂർച്ചയേറിയതും പ്രാണനെയും ആത്മാവിനെയും സന്ധിമജ്ജകളെയും വേറുവിടുവിക്കുംവരെ തുളെച്ചുചെല്ലുന്നതും ഹൃദയത്തിലെ ചിന്തനങ്ങളെയും ഭാവങ്ങളെയും വിവേചിക്കുന്നതും ആകുന്നു.

    എബ്രായർ 4:12

  • അവൻ അവളെ വചനത്തോടുകൂടിയ ജലസ്നാനത്താൽ വെടിപ്പാക്കി വിശുദ്ധീകരിക്കേണ്ടതിന്നും എഫെസ്യർ 5:26

  • ആകയാൽ എല്ലാ അഴുക്കും ദുഷ്ടതയുടെ ആധിക്യവും വിട്ടു നിങ്ങളുടെ ആത്മാക്കളെ രക്ഷിപ്പാൻ ശക്തിയുള്ളതും ഉൾനട്ടതുമായ വചനം സൌമ്യതയോടെ കൈക്കൊൾവിൻ. യാക്കോബ് 1:21

3 thoughts on “BIBLE/SCRIPTURE/WORD”

  1. Scripture make you wise

    Lay up word not sin

    Meditate/observe – success

    Word – logos rhema Dawbar

    Living and active

    Actively at work

  2. Different versions: mainline vs paraphrase

    Bible dictionary

    Bible reading patterns
    OT/NT
    Proverbs
    Psalms

  3. Memorise scripture – word of Christ/HS remind you

    Use promises in word for Hope

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