Hebrews 4:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.

Cross References

Psalm 110:2

The scepter of your might: the Lord extends your strong scepter from Zion. Have dominion over your enemies!

Psalm 119:130

The revelation of your words sheds light, gives understanding to the simple.

Psalm 139:2

you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.

Psalm 149:6

With the praise of God in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands,

Psalm 45:3

You are the most handsome of men; fair speech has graced your lips, for God has blessed you forever.

Proverbs 5:4

But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The sayings of the wise are like goads; like fixed spikes are the collected sayings given by one shepherd.

Isaiah 11:4

But he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide fairly for the land’s afflicted. He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Isaiah 49:2

He made my mouth like a sharp-edged sword, concealed me, shielded by his hand. He made me a sharpened arrow, in his quiver he hid me.

Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what pleases me, achieving the end for which I sent it.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, explore the mind and test the heart, Giving to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds.

Jeremiah 23:29

Is not my word like fire—oracle of the Lord— like a hammer shattering rock?

Luke 8:11

“This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.

John 12:48

Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day,

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?”

Acts 4:31

As they prayed, the place where they were gathered shook, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. Life in the Christian Community.

Acts 5:33

When they heard this, they became infuriated and wanted to put them to death.

Acts 7:38

It was he who, in the assembly in the desert, was with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living utterances to hand on to us.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:24

but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like the many who trade on the word of God; but as out of sincerity, indeed as from God and in the presence of God, we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Rather, we have renounced shameful, hidden things; not acting deceitfully or falsifying the word of God, but by the open declaration of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

Ephesians 5:13

but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

Ephesians 5:26

to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,

Ephesians 6:17

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Constant Prayer.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly, that, in receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received not a human word but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is now at work in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself make you perfectly holy and may you entirely, spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

Hebrews 6:5

and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,

Revelation 1:16

In his right hand he held seven stars. A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest.

Revelation 19:15

Out of his mouth came a sharp sword to strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he himself will tread out in the wine press the wine of the fury and wrath of God the almighty.

Revelation 19:21

The rest were killed by the sword that came out of the mouth of the one riding the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

Revelation 2:16

Therefore, repent. Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and wage war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Revelation 2:23

I will also put her children to death. Thus shall all the churches come to know that I am the searcher of hearts and minds and that I will give each of you what your works deserve.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw thrones; those who sat on them were entrusted with judgment. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image nor had accepted its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came to life and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Judges 3:16

Ehud made himself a two-edged dagger a foot long, and strapped it under his clothes on his right thigh.