Hebrews 4:12

Tree of Life Version

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword—piercing right through to a separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Cross References

Psalm 110:2

Adonai will extend your mighty rod from Zion: “Rule in the midst of your enemies.”

Psalm 119:130

The unfolding of Your words gives light, giving understanding to the simple.

Psalm 139:2

Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it. You discern my thinking from afar.

Psalm 149:6

Let God’s high praises be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand—

Psalm 45:3

You are the most handsome of the sons of men. Grace pours from your lips. Therefore God has blessed you forever.

Proverbs 5:4

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

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads, their collective sayings are like firmly affixed nails. They have been given by one Shepherd.

Isaiah 11:4

But with righteousness He will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the poor of the land. He will strike the land with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

Isaiah 49:2

He made My mouth like a sharp sword. in the shadow of His hand He hid Me. He made Me a polished arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.

Isaiah 55:11

so My word will be that goes out from My mouth. It will not return to Me in vain, but will accomplish what I intend, and will succeed in what I sent it for.

Jeremiah 17:10

I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Jeremiah 23:29

“Is not My word like fire?” says Adonai, “or like a hammer that shatters rock?

Luke 8:11

“Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.

John 12:48

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t receive My words has a judge; the word I spoke will judge him on the last day.

John 6:51

I am the living bread, which came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. This bread is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the emissaries, “Fellow brethren, what shall we do?”

Acts 4:31

When they had prayed, the place where they were gathered was shaken. And they were all filled with the Ruach ha-Kodesh and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

Acts 5:33

Now when they heard this, they became enraged and wanted to kill them.

Acts 7:38

“This is the one who was in the community in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living words to pass on to us.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the Good News, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who trusts—to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:24

but to those who are called (both Jewish and Greek people), Messiah, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God. Rather, in Messiah we speak in the sight of God with sincerity, as persons sent from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation of the truth.

Ephesians 5:13

Yet everything exposed by the light is being made visible,

Ephesians 5:26

to make her holy, having cleansed her by immersion in the word.

Ephesians 6:17

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

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason, we also thank God constantly that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is—the word of God, which does its work in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may the God of shalom Himself make you completely holy; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept complete, blameless at the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

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 having tasted the good word of God and the powers of the olam ha-ba ,

James 1:18

By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again—not from perishable seed but imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.

Revelation 1:16

In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came forth a sharp, two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at full strength.

Revelation 19:15

From His mouth comes a sharp sword—so that with it He may strike down the nations—and He shall rule them with an iron rod, and He treads the winepress of the furious wrath of Elohei-Tzva’ot.

Revelation 19:21

The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the One riding on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.

Revelation 2:16

Repent then! If not, I will come to you soon and make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Revelation 2:23

I will also strike her children with a deadly disease. Then all of Messiah’s communities will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your deeds.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw thrones, and people sat upon them—those to whom authority to judge was given. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Yeshua and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image, nor had they received his mark on their forehead or on their hand. And they came to life and reigned with the Messiah for a thousand years.

Judges 3:16

Ehud made himself a double-edged sword, a cubit in length, which he girded on his right thigh under his cloak.