66 Bible Verses About God’s Word

It may seem a bit circular, but believe it or not the Bible has a lot to say about…the Bible! God’s Word is a unified document of many different writings—it is not like it is a single book written in a sterile lab by a single person. One of the cool parts of the Bible as a book is that different writers refer to the works of other writers and to the Word of God as a whole. Likewise, the Bible has a lot to say about the words God speaks and the teachings he provides. Let’s explore a bunch of verses about God’s Word.

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Exodus 34:28
So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:2
May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.

Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful 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.

2 Samuel 22:31
This God—his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

Psalm 18:30
This God—his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Psalm 19:7
The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple.

Psalm 33:4
For the word of the Lord is upright,
and all his work is done in faithfulness.

Psalm 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart;
his steps do not slip.

Psalm 56:4
In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?

Psalm 107:20
He sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from their destruction.

Psalm 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.

Psalm 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.

Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.

Psalm 119:114
You are my hiding place and my shield;
I hope in your word.

Psalm 119:130
The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.

Psalm 119:160
The sum of your word is truth,
and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

Psalm 130:5
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope.

Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom; get insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:10
Hear, my son, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.

Proverbs 4:20-21
My son, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
Let them not escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart.

Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God proves true;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.

Isaiah 55:11
So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. 

Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them,
and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
O LORD, God of hosts.

Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Ezekiel 12:28
Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord God.

Matthew 4:4
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 5:18
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.

Matthew 7:24
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Matthew 13:22
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Matthew 22:29
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.”

Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Luke 11:28
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

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

John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 5:39
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

John 7:16
So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.”

John 8:31-32
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 10:35
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

John 15:3
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

John 15:7
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 17:17
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Acts 2:41
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 15:4
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.

Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Philippians 2:14-16a
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life.

2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
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.

Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

 

Hebrews 4:12
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.

 

James 1:21-22
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

1 Peter 1:23
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.

1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.

2 Peter 1:20-21
Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.