The Bible

The Talking Book

Proverbs 6:22

… Bible; for a ton weight of human literature is not worth an ounce of Scripture; one single drop of the essential tincture of the word of God is …

The Warnings and the Rewards of the Word of God

Psalm 19:11

… Know your Bible from beginning to end. I am afraid there is but little Bible searching nowadays. If the Word of God had been diligently studied there would …

A Warrant for Your Apprehension

Zephaniah 2:5

… You will say, "Whatever I may be, I do not want the Bible tampered with, to make it suit my ungodly life, nor do I wish Holy Scripture …

The Sword of the Spirit

Ephesians 6:17

… These dear girls from the Orphanage and yonder lads from the Bible class, may fight the battle of their youth with the Word of God, for Holy Scripture …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… The Church which withholds the Bible from its members, or takes away from them the genuine Word of God, is guilty of bringing the most dreadful famine upon …

A Very Early Bible Society

2 Chronicles 34:15

… That was a grand Bible-reading, with a king for reader and all his princes and all his people gathered to listen to the Word of God! What …

The Secret Food And The Public Name

Jeremiah 15:16

… The practice of always reading the Bible in scraps is also to be deprecated. I recommend the student of Scripture to read through a whole book carefully. As …

The Bible Tried and Proved

Psalm 12:6

… providing the Bible for readers but we greatly need readers of the Bible. I grieve that even to some who bear the Christian name, Holy Scripture is the …

The Word a Sword

Hebrews 4:12

… The Word of God, namely, this Revelation of Himself in Holy Scripture, is all it is here described to be, because Jesus, the Incarnate Word of God, is …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… brings before us; and equally worthy of admiration is the forcible manner in which that truth is advanced. Hints given in the way in which the word of …

Search the Scriptures

Isaiah 8:20

… Scripture—unless he understands the Word of God, and is able to perceive and to know what it means. But I hear some one say, that the Bible …

Infallibility—Where To Find It and How To Use It

Matthew 4:4

… The Word of God was the man of his right hand, the Scripture communed with Him! He was hungry, for He had fasted 40 days and nights, and …

Loving the Law of the Lord

Psalm 119:97-100

… Scripture that has a quarrel with you, you had better submit to it at once! If you are not in full agreement with the Word of God, you …

How to Read the Bible

Matthew 12:3-7

… And how they did read the Bible! How little of Scripture there is in modern sermons compared with the sermons of those masters of theology, the Puritanic divines …

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… Probably of all the books printed, the most widely circulated, and the least read volume, is the word of God. Books about the Bible are read, I fear …

How to Read the Bible

1 Timothy 4:13

… Ask God not to let your Bible be another man's Bible, but your own Bible—God's own mouth speaking to your soul of the things which …

The Sunday School and the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15

… Words of the Bible strike and stick—they enter and abide. He that has been taught in Scripture, steeped in Scripture, saturated with Scripture—is conscious of its …

Living on the Word

Deuteronomy 8:3

… Every Word of God is that upon which man lives in the highest and healthiest state. Look, for instance, at the Doctrine in the Word of God. "I …

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… Come then, dear Friends, send your servants away! Forget your business and stand still that I may announce to you the Word of God! As the Word of …

Revelation and Conversion

Psalm 19:7

… come out of the Bible, and yet they will never turn him unless the Spirit of God makes use of the Word of God or the preacher's …

Commendation for the Steadfast

Revelation 3:8

… If a disputer can once get you away from the Bible, he can swallow you alive; but if you will keep to Scripture, and handle this weapon, ‘It …

David Warned and Rewarded

Psalm 19:11

… No part of the Bible is to be set up above the rest, or to be treated as of secondary importance. "All Scripture is given by Inspiration of …

Christ's Indwelling Word

Colossians 3:16

… If you read a portion of Scripture every day, I commend you for doing so. If you make a practice of reading right through the Bible in a …

Great Spoil

Psalm 119:162

… finds it! Notice, still further, that Holy Scripture, when it comes to us with power as the Word of God, is the beginning of communion with God. It …

God in Nature and in Revelation

Psalm 19:7-9

… often expounded Scripture rather than gave utterance to so many of our own words and thoughts. In speaking in this Psalm concerning the Word of God, David uses …

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

2 Timothy 2:15

… He must make use of the material laid ready to his hand in the Bible. Every portion of the Word of God is very blessed and exceedingly profitable …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:20

… we understand, first, that he greatly reverenced the Word of God. He was not among those who regard the Bible as only a very important portion of human …

Evening, June 9

Jn 5:39

… of wheat in it, but the Bible is winnowed corn—we have but to open the granary door and find it. Scripture grows upon the student. It is …

Place for the Word

John 8:37

… The Word of God—if you come home with me, you will find that I have a splendid copy of the Bible in my best room, well bound …

The Bible

Hosea 8:12

… It is concerning this blessed book, the Bible, that I mean to speak tonight. Here lies my text—this Word of God. Here is the theme of my …

Knowledge Commended

Daniel 11:32

… This will be clear to all of you who read attentively your Bible, because the words, "to know," and, "to believe," are frequently used in Scripture almost synonymously …

The Sweetness of God's Word

Psalm 119:103

… This exclamation of David is a clear proof that he set the highest possible value upon the Word of God. The evidence is more valuable because the Scripture …

Bread For The Hungry

Deuteronomy 8:3

… This bread, you see, is the Word of God. Now, the Word is given to us first here in the Bible, as it is written. It is given …

An Old-fashioned Remedy

Psalm 107:20

… Book, this Revelation which is the Word of God. Though it is Christ that heals men, and not the Bible, the Bible is like the wrapper of the …

A Round of Delights

Romans 15:13

… in the Word of God hope for the Gentiles, so will the most heavy laden and burdened spirit discover sources of consolation if the Bible is diligently read …

The Family Likeness

Romans 8:14

… often wrong—be a greater searcher of the Word of God. This is not the age in which the Bible is read much. I suppose there are more …

Understandest Thou What Thou Readest?

Acts 8:30-33

… The Bible was meant to be understood, and it benefits us in proportion as we get at the meaning of it. The mere words of Scripture passing over …

Three Important Precepts

Proverbs 23:19

… Bible as to whether it is the very Truth of God or not—then it is that men hear to profit. Those who compare sermons with Scripture are …

The Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Luke 23:46

… Scripture and He went to it, studied it and used its expressions continually. Oh, that you and I might get into the very heart of the Word of …

The Priest Dispensed With

1 John 5:10

… Thus faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Attentive hearers, earnestly listening, very seldom remain unbelievers long. The superficial hearer who is satisfied to …