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 have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
• 2 Tim 3:15–17And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
• Isa 30:8–11Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
• Acts 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
• John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
• Ps 119:130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
• Mark 7:7–9Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• John 5:46–47For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
• Jer 8:9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
• Isa 8:16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Hos 6:3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
• Mal 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Mic 3:6Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
• Matt 22:29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• Gal 3:8–29And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
• Matt 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Gal 4:21–22Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
• Ps 19:7–8The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
• Isa 1:10Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
• Luke 10:26He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
• 2 Pet 1:9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
• Luke 16:29–31Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

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