Hebrews 4:12

Easy To Read Version

God’s word {\cf2\super [34]} (message) is alive and working. His word is sharper than the sharpest sword. God’s word cuts all the way into us \{like a sword\}. It cuts deep to the place where the soul and the spirit are joined. God’s word cuts to the center of our joints and our bones. It judges the thoughts and feelings in our hearts.

Cross References

Psalm 110:2

The Lord will help your kingdom grow.\par Your kingdom will start at Zion, {\cf2\super [573]} \par and \{it will grow until\} you rule\par your enemies in their own countries!\par

Psalm 119:130

When people begin to understand your word,\par it is like a light showing them\par the right way of living.\par Your word makes even simple people wise.\par

Psalm 139:2

You know when I sit down\par and when I get up.\par You know my thoughts from far away.\par

Psalm 149:6

Let the people shout praise to God\par and take their swords in their hands,\par

Psalm 45:3

Put your sword on.\par Put on your glorious uniform.\par

Proverbs 5:4

But in the end, she will bring only bitterness and pain. It will be like bitter poison and a sharp sword!

Ecclesiastes 12:11

Words from wise men are like sharp sticks that people use to make their animals go the right way. Those teachings are like strong pegs that won’t break. \{You can trust those teachings to show you the right way to live.\} Those wise teachings all come from the same Shepherd (God).

Isaiah 49:2

\{The Lord uses me to speak for him.\}\par He uses me like a sharp sword,\par \{But he also protects me,\}\par hiding me in his hand.\par The Lord uses me like a sharp arrow,\par but he also hides me in his arrow bag.\par

Isaiah 55:11

In the same way, my words leave my mouth,\par and they don’t come back until they make things happen.\par My words make the things happen that I want to happen.\par My words succeed in doing the things I send them to do.\par

Jeremiah 17:10

But I am the Lord,\par and I can look into a person’s heart.\par I can test a person’s mind.\par I can decide what each person should have.\par I can give each person the right payment\par for the things he does.\par

Jeremiah 23:29

My message is like a fire.” This message is from the Lord. “It is like a hammer that smashes a rock.

Luke 8:11

“This is what the story means: The seed is God’s teaching.

John 12:48

There is a judge for the person that refuses to believe in me and does not accept what I say. The message I have taught will judge that person on the last day.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If a person eats this bread, then that person will live forever. This bread is my body. I will give my body so that the people in the world can have life.”

Acts 2:37

When the people heard this, they felt very, very sorry. They asked Peter and the other apostles, {\cf2\super [41]} “Brothers, what should we do?”

Acts 4:31

After the believers prayed, the place where they were meeting shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, {\cf2\super [79]} and they continued to speak God’s message {\cf2\super [80]} without fear.

Acts 5:33

The Jewish leaders heard these words. They became very angry. They began to plan a way to kill the apostles. {\cf2\super [101]}

Acts 7:38

This is the same Moses who was with the gathering of God’s people in the desert. He was with the angel that spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and he was with our ancestors. Moses received commands from God that give life. Moses gave us those commands.

Romans 1:16

I am proud of the Good News. The Good News is the power God uses to save every person that believes—to save the Jews first, and also to save the non-Jews.

1 Corinthians 1:24

But Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God to those people that God has called (chosen)—Jews and Greeks (non-Jews).

2 Corinthians 2:17

We don’t sell the word of God for a profit like many other people do. No! But in Christ we speak in truth before God. We speak like men sent from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have turned away from secret and shameful ways. We don’t use trickery, and we don’t change the teaching of God. No! We teach the truth plainly. This is how we show people who we are. And this is how they can know in their hearts what kind of people we are before God.

Ephesians 5:13

But when we show that those things are wrong, the light makes all those things easy to see.

Ephesians 5:26

He died to make the church holy. {\cf2\super [40]} Christ used the telling of the Good News {\cf2\super [41]} to make the church clean by washing it with water.

Ephesians 6:17

Accept God’s salvation to be your helmet. And take the sword of the Spirit {\cf2\super [47]} —that sword is the teaching of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Also, we always thank God because of the way you accepted God’s message (teaching). You heard that message from us, and you accepted it like it was God’s words, not the words of men. And it really is God’s message (teaching). And that message works in you people who believe.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

We pray that God himself, the God of peace, will make you pure—belonging only to him. We pray that your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—will be kept safe and be without wrong when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders. They taught God’s message to you. Remember how they lived and died, and copy their faith.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth. He wanted us to be the most important of all the things he made.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again. This new life did not come from something that dies. It came from something that cannot die. You were born again through God’s living message {\cf2\super [11]} that continues forever.

Revelation 1:16

He held seven stars in his right hand. A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth. He looked like the sun shining at its brightest time.

Revelation 19:15

A sharp sword comes out of the rider’s mouth. He will use this sword to defeat the nations. He will rule the nations with a rod of iron. He will squeeze \{the grapes\} in the winepress of the terrible anger of God the All-Powerful.

Revelation 19:21

Their armies were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse. All the birds ate these bodies until the birds were full.

Revelation 2:16

So change your hearts! If you don’t change, I will come to you quickly and fight against those people with the sword that comes out of my mouth.

Revelation 2:23

I will also kill her followers. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who knows what people feel and think. And I will repay each of you for the things you have done.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw some thrones and people sitting on them. These were the people who had been given the power to judge. And I saw the souls of those people who had been killed because \{they were faithful to\} the truth of Jesus and the message {\cf2\super [152]} from God. Those people did not worship the animal or his idol. {\cf2\super [153]} They did not receive the mark of the animal on their foreheads or on their hands. Those people became alive again and ruled with Christ for 1,000 years.

Judges 3:16

Ehud made a sword for himself. That sword had two sharp edges and was about 18 inches [26] long. Ehud tied the sword to his right thigh and hid it under his uniform.