Isaiah 8:20

God's written word, not occult sources, is the test of truth; those who reject it walk in darkness.

Cross-references · 24

• 2 Pet 1:19We 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.
• 2 Tim 3:15–17From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Isa 30:8–11Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
• Ps 119:130The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.
• Mark 7:7–9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’
• John 5:46–47If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
• Jer 8:9The 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?
• Isa 8:16Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.
• Rom 1:22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
• Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• Mic 3:6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
• Matt 22:29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
• Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
• Gal 3:8–29The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
• Matt 6:23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Gal 4:21–22Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
• Ps 19:7–8The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Isa 1:10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
• Luke 10:26“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
• 2 Pet 1:9But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
• Luke 16:29–31But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’

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