Hebrews 4:12

New Century Version

God’s word is alive and working and is sharper than a double-edged sword. It cuts all the way into us, where the soul and the spirit are joined, to the center of our joints and bones. And it judges the thoughts and feelings in our hearts.

Cross References

Psalm 110:2

The Lord will enlarge your kingdom beyond Jerusalem, and you will rule over your enemies.

Psalm 119:130

Learning your words gives wisdom and understanding for the foolish.

Psalm 139:2

You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them.

Psalm 149:6

Let them shout his praise with their two-edged swords in their hands.

Psalm 45:3

Put on your sword, powerful warrior. Show your glory and majesty.

Proverbs 5:4

But in the end she will bring you sorrow, causing you pain like a two-edged sword.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

Words from wise people are like sharp sticks used to guide animals. They are like nails that have been driven in firmly. Altogether they are wise teachings that come from one Shepherd.

Isaiah 11:4

But he will judge the poor honestly; he will be fair in his decisions for the poor people of the land. At his command evil people will be punished, and by his words the wicked will be put to death.

Isaiah 49:2

He made my tongue like a sharp sword. He hid me in the shadow of his hand. He made me like a sharp arrow. He hid me in the holder for his arrows.

Isaiah 55:11

The same thing is true of the words I speak. They will not return to me empty. They make the things happen that I want to happen, and they succeed in doing what I send them to do.

Jeremiah 17:10

But I, the Lord, look into a person’s heart and test the mind. So I can decide what each one deserves; I can give each one the right payment for what he does.”

Jeremiah 23:29

Isn’t my message like a fire?” says the Lord. “Isn’t it like a hammer that smashes a rock?

Luke 8:11

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

John 12:48

There is a judge for those who refuse to believe in me and do not accept my words. The word I have taught will be their judge on the last day.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give up so that the world may have life.”

Acts 2:37

When the people heard this, they felt guilty and asked Peter and the other apostles, “What shall we do?”

Acts 4:31

After they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke God’s word without fear.

Acts 5:33

When the leaders heard this, they became angry and wanted to kill them.

Acts 7:38

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

Romans 1:16

I am not ashamed of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and then to save non-Jews.

1 Corinthians 1:24

But Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God to those people God has called—Jews and Greeks.

2 Corinthians 2:17

We do not sell the word of God for a profit as many other people do. But in Christ we speak the truth before God, as messengers of God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have turned away from secret and shameful ways. We use no trickery, and we do not change the teaching of God. We teach the truth plainly, showing everyone who we are. Then they can know in their hearts what kind of people we are in God’s sight.

Ephesians 5:13

But the light makes all things easy to see,

Ephesians 5:26

to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.

Ephesians 6:17

Accept God’s salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Also, we always thank God because when you heard his message from us, you accepted it as the word of God, not the words of humans. And it really is God’s message which works in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may God himself, the God of peace, make you pure, belonging only to him. May your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—be kept safe and without fault when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

Hebrews 13:7

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

Hebrews 6:5

They found out how good God’s word is, and they received the powers of his new world.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all the things he made.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again, and this new life did not come from something that dies, but from something that cannot die. You were born again through God’s living message that continues forever.

Revelation 1:16

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

Revelation 19:15

Out of the rider’s mouth comes a sharp sword that he will use to defeat the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will crush out the wine in the winepress of the terrible anger of God the Almighty.

Revelation 19:21

And their armies were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds ate the bodies until they were full.

Revelation 2:16

So change your hearts and lives. If you do not, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword that comes out of my mouth.

Revelation 2:23

I will also kill her followers. Then all the churches will know I am the One who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you for what you have done.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw some thrones and people sitting on them who had been given the power to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been killed because they were faithful to the message of Jesus and the message from God. They had not worshiped the beast or his idol, and they had not received the mark of the beast on their foreheads or on their hands. They came back to life and ruled with Christ for a thousand years.

Judges 3:16

Ehud made himself a sword with two edges, about eighteen inches long, and he tied it to his right hip under his clothes.