43 Bible Verses about Reading The Bible

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

whereby, when ye read ye may know mine understanding in the mystery of Christ,

and they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God four times on the day; and they acknowledged, and worshipped the LORD their God four times on the day.

And Philip ran to him, and heard him read Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Understandest thou what thou readest?"

And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly, so that men understood the thing that was read.

Therefore beware, my son, that above these thou make them not many and innumerable books, nor take divers doctrines in hand, to weary thy body withal.

And Ezra opened the book before all the people, for he stood above all the people. And when he opened it, all the people stood up.

Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men;

Happy is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein. For the time is at hand.

And when thou hast read out the book, bind a stone to it, and cast it in the midst of Euphrates,

So that ye first know this: That no prophecy in the scripture hath any private interpretation.

when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God, in the place which he hath chosen: see that thou read this law before all Israel in their ears.

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

But if it be given to one that is not learned, saying, "Read thou, in it." Then sayeth he, "I cannot read."

And after the law and the prophets were read, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them saying, "Ye men and brethren, if ye have any sermon to exhort the people, say on."

And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God for to keep all the words of this law and these ordinances for to do them:

For all scripture given by inspiration of God, is profitable to teach, to improve, to amend, and to instruct in righteousness,

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God: and the word was God.

Seek through the scripture of the LORD and read it: There shall none of these things be left out, there shall not one, nor such like, fail. For what his mouth commandeth, that same doth his spirit gather together or fulfill.

And read therein in the street that is before the Watergate, from the morning until the noon day before men and women, and such as could understand it: and the ears of all the people were inclined unto the book of the law.

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

And all visions shall be unto you, as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, "Read thou, in it." And he sayeth, "I cannot read it, for it is shut."

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

Nevertheless when they turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

O give ear unto nurture, be wise, and refuse it not.

Examine all things, and keep that which is good.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read the veil hangeth before their hearts.

Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye are deceived, and understand not what the scripture meaneth, nor yet the power of God.

But their minds were blinded. For until this day remaineth the same covering, untaken away, in the old testament when they read it - which in Christ is put away:

Yea, even in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, desired to know the yearly number out of the books, whereof the LORD spake unto Jeremiah the Prophet: that Jerusalem should lie waste seventy years:

He said unto them, "Have ye not read what David did, when he was a hungered, and they also which were with him?

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

Be ye sure, that the LORD he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves. We are but his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

The same stone which the builders refused, is become the headstone in the corner.

Then opened he their wits, that they might understand the scriptures,

And he began to say unto them, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."

And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.

And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the audience of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD hath said, we will do and hear."

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law will he exercise himself, day and night.

Jesus said unto them, "Did ye never read in the scriptures? 'The same stone which the builders refused, the same is set in the principal part of the corner: this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.'

He answered and said unto them, "At even ye say, 'We shall have fair weather,' and that because the sky is red:

He answered, and said unto them, "Have ye not read, how that he which made man at the beginning, made them man and woman?