22 Bible Verses About Writing



  • God tells Moses (Exodus 34:27), Isaiah (Isaiah 30:8), Jeremiah (Jeremiah 30:2), Habakkuk (Habakkuk 2:2) and John (Revelation 1:19) to write down what he has said or shown them.
  • Deuteronomy 17:18 requires Israel’s king to copy out the law by hand and read it all his life, so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers.
  • Jeremiah 31:33 promises a new covenant with the law written on hearts, and 2 Corinthians 3:3 contrasts tablets of stone with tablets of human hearts.
  • Luke 1:3-4, John 20:31 and 1 John 1:4 each state why the book or letter was written.
  • Romans 16:22 names Tertius as the one who wrote the letter down, and in Galatians 6:11 and Colossians 4:18 Paul writes the closing lines in his own hand.

In the Bible, God tells people to write down what he has said, his law is to be written on doorposts, in a book and on the heart, and several authors say why they wrote. Moses is told to write the words of the covenant (Exodus 34:27), and in Jeremiah 31:33 God promises to write his law “on their hearts.” Several New Testament writers say why they wrote: Luke so that Theophilus “may have certainty” (Luke 1:4), and John “so…

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