Isaiah 55:11

God's word will not return empty but will accomplish His purpose and succeed in what He sends it to do. It matters because it guarantees the certain effectiveness of God's promises.

Cross-references · 16

• Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
• Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
• Rom 10:17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
• Isa 45:23By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
• Luke 8:11–16Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
• 1 Cor 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
• 1 Th 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
• 1 Pet 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
• Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• 1 Cor 3:6–9I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
• Eph 1:9–11And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
• Deut 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
• Heb 6:7For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
• Isa 54:9“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
• Isa 44:26–28who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’

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