39 You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.
4 For everything that was written long ago was written for our instruction, so that we might have hope through the endurance and encouragement that the Scriptures give us.
3 How blessed is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep what is written in it, for the time is near!
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 so that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work.
24 Jesus said to them,"Aren't you mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power?
11 These people were more receptive than those in Thessalonica. They were very willing to receive the message, and every day they carefully examined the Scriptures to see if those things were so.
13 Until I arrive, concentrate on the public reading of Scripture, on exhorting, and on teaching.