2 Timothy 3:16

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

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.

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

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

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

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.