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 the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises 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, which is in Christ Jesus.
• Isa 30:8–11Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
• Ps 119:130The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
• Mark 7:7–9But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
• John 5:46–47For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
• Jer 8:9The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
• Isa 8:16Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples.
• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• Mic 3:6“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
• Matt 22:29But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• Gal 3:8–29The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
• Matt 6:23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
• Gal 4:21–22Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
• Ps 19:7–8Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Isa 1:10Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
• Luke 10:26He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
• 2 Pet 1:9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
• Luke 16:29–31“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

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