2 Timothy 3:16

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Cross-references · 40

• Rom 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• 2 Pet 1:19–21We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
• Mark 12:24Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
• Ps 19:7–11The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Prov 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Ps 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
• 2 Tim 4:2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
• Ps 119:130The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.
• Ps 119:97–104Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
• 2 Sam 23:2The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.
• Eph 4:11–16And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
• Prov 15:31He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
• 2 Tim 2:25He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
• Deut 4:36He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
• Matt 13:52Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
• Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
• John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
• Neh 9:20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
• Acts 18:25He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
• Rom 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
• Heb 3:7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
• Eph 5:11–13Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
• Prov 15:10Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
• Gal 3:8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
• Acts 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
• 1 Cor 12:7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
• John 10:35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
• Acts 1:16“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
• Heb 11:1Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
• Matt 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
• Matt 26:56But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
• Rom 4:23Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham,
• Mic 2:7Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
• Rom 3:2Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
• Acts 28:25They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
• Matt 22:31–32But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:
• Mark 12:36Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
• Matt 26:54But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

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