John 5:39

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You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; yet it is they that testify about me.

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  • Luke 24:27 : 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
  • Isa 34:16 : 16 Search and consult the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these will be missing; none will lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them together.
  • 2 Pet 1:19-21 : 19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. 20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation. 21 For prophecy was never produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that would come to you searched and investigated carefully. 11 They inquired into what time or situation the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when He testified beforehand about the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
  • Acts 26:22-23 : 22 But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to both small and great, saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen: 23 that the Messiah must suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the light of the gospel to our people and to the Gentiles.
  • 2 Tim 3:14-17 : 14 But you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you have learned it. 15 And from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms."
  • Prov 8:33-34 : 33 Listen to instruction and be wise; do not neglect it. 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances.
  • Acts 13:27 : 27 The people living in Jerusalem and their rulers, not recognizing Him or the words of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 The Bereans were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
  • Rom 1:2 : 2 (which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures)
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way! First of all, they were entrusted with the very words of God.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
  • Ps 119:97-99 : 97 Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all day long. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
  • Deut 18:15 : 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people. You must listen to him.
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
  • Acts 8:32-35 : 32 The passage of Scripture he was reading was this: 'Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.' 33 In his humiliation justice was taken away from him. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth. 34 The eunuch said to Philip, 'I ask you, who is the prophet talking about? Himself or someone else?' 35 Then Philip began to speak, and starting from this Scripture, he preached to him the good news about Jesus.
  • John 5:46 : 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
  • Matt 22:29 : 29 Jesus answered them, 'You are mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not read this Scripture: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.'?
  • John 1:45 : 45 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.'
  • John 5:32 : 32 There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is true.
  • John 5:36 : 36 But I have testimony greater than John's: the works the Father has given Me to complete, the very works I am doing, testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.
  • John 7:52 : 52 They responded, 'Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.'
  • Luke 16:29 : 29 But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'
  • Luke 16:31 : 31 But Abraham said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.
  • Deut 32:47 : 47 They are not just empty words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
  • Josh 1:8 : 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
  • Deut 11:18-20 : 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,
  • Ps 36:9 : 9 They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have hidden Your word in my heart so that I might not sin against You.
  • Acts 26:27 : 27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 Then I fell down 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 who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.'
  • Rom 2:17-18 : 17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law and boast in God, 18 and know His will and approve things that are excellent, being instructed from the law,
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
  • Heb 11:16 : 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  • Heb 11:35 : 35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
  • Ps 133:3 : 3 It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion, for there the LORD commanded the blessing—life forevermore.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Matt 19:16-20 : 16 Then someone came to him and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to have eternal life?" 17 Jesus replied, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." 18 The man asked, "Which ones?" Jesus answered, "Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" 20 The young man said to him, "I have kept all these. What do I still lack?"
  • Deut 17:18-19 : 18 When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. 19 It shall remain with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes to follow them.
  • Deut 18:18 : 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
  • Ps 1:2 : 2 Instead, his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on His law, he meditates day and night.
  • Ps 21:4 : 4 For You meet him with blessings of good things; You place a crown of pure gold upon his head.
  • Luke 10:25-29 : 25 And behold, an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, 'Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' 26 He asked him, 'What is written in the Law? How do you read it?' 27 The man answered, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.' 28 Jesus said to him, 'You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.' 29 But wishing to justify himself, he asked Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

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