25 Bible Verses About the Word of God



  • 2 Timothy 3:16 calls all Scripture “God-breathed,” from the Greek theopneustos, and lists its uses as teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
  • John 1:1 and John 1:14 speak of the Word as a person who was God and “became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”
  • Isaiah 40:8 says the word of God endures forever; 1 Peter 1:24-25 quotes it, and Jesus says the same of his own words in Matthew 24:35.
  • In Matthew 4:4 Jesus answers the tempter with Deuteronomy 8:3, Moses’ lesson from the manna in the wilderness.
  • Joshua 1:8 and Psalm 1:2 both speak of meditating on God’s law “day and night.”

The word of God is what God speaks, the Scriptures, and a person who became flesh. Isaiah 55:11 promises that God’s word will not return to him empty, Paul calls all Scripture “God-breathed” (2 Timothy 3:16), and John 1:14 names the Word who “became flesh” as the Son who came from the Father. In Psalm 19 and Psalm 119 the psalmists name God’s word by several terms in turn: law, statutes, precepts, commands and decrees. Jesus answered the tempter in…

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