For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.
John 5:39 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You search and investigate and pore over the Scriptures diligently, because you suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them. And these [very Scriptures] testify about Me! American Standard Version (1901) Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; Common English Bible Examine the scriptures, since you think that in them you have eternal life. They also testify about me, Catholic Public Domain Version Study the Scriptures. For you think that in them you have eternal life. And yet they also offer testimony about me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting; and the same are they that give testimony of me. |
For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.
Search and read the scroll of the Lord: Not one of them will be missing, none will be lacking its mate, because he has ordered it by my mouth, and he will gather them by his Spirit.
Go to God’s instruction and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and snared. They have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom do they really have?
Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, and some to disgrace and eternal contempt.
Jesus answered them, ‘You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.
Haven’t you read this Scripture: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
‘But Abraham said, “They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.”
‘But he told him, “If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.” ’
He said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.
He told them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you #– #that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’
Philip found Nathanael and told him, ‘We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law (and so did the prophets ): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.’
There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.
‘But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about me that the Father has sent me.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
‘You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? ’ they replied. ‘Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.’ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ [The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.] [
Since the residents of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognise him or the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they have fulfilled their words by condemning him.
The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures #– #
Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the very words of God.
‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children for ever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.’
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
But they now desire a better place #– #a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Women received their dead, raised to life again. Other people were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to meditate on it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.
Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold firmly to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.’