Bible Verses About Reading Your Bible
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for reading your bible, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,983 votes, led by Joshua 1:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Reading Your Bible
Joshua 1:8219 votes
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
2 Timothy 3:16204 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Psalms 119:105173 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Romans 15:4155 votes
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Psalms 119:11123 votes
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Hebrews 4:12111 votes
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.
Colossians 3:16103 votes
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.
2 Timothy 2:15100 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Matthew 4:486 votes
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Psalms 119:981 votes
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
1 Timothy 4:1373 votes
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
2 Timothy 3:16-1770 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Luke 24:4560 votes
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Proverbs 2:3-559 votes
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
1 Peter 2:257 votes
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Acts 17:1153 votes
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Psalms 119:9751 votes
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
John 17:1750 votes
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Job 23:1246 votes
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Luke 10:2639 votes
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Isaiah 55:1137 votes
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
James 1:2135 votes
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Psalms 1:234 votes
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms 27:1-1427 votes
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
John 5:3927 votes
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
What does the Bible say about reading your bible?
Readers most often cite Joshua 1:8 on the subject of reading your bible. Across 2,983 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Timothy 3:16, Psalms 119:105, Romans 15:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.