Why is it important to read the Bible daily? - Part 2: Biblical Reasons
I started writing a blog post about the importance of reading the Bible daily. That one post quickly turned into three! The reasons just kept coming to mind. If you haven't yet, read about my personal reasons for reading scripture daily here. Social reasons for reading scripture daily coming soon!
Below, enjoy Biblical passages that encourage and reveal the importance of reading scripture.
“Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.”
“The voice of one saying, ‘Cry out!’
One said, ‘What shall I cry?’
’All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers,
the flower fades,
because the LORD’s breath blows on it.
Surely the people are like grass.
The grass withers,
the flower fades;
but the word of our God stands forever.’”
“Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, ‘The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.’ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected. But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. ”
“This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is near.”
Isn't it interesting that God uses Scripture to encourage Scripture reading?
Which verses in the Bible encourage you to read the Bible?
PS - I’m quoting WEBU due to it being public domain, free for use without copyright restrictions. If you’d like to read the scriptures above in your preferred Bible version, use the links below to each in NIV on Bible Gateway’s website. Change to your preferred version when you arrive at Bible Gateway.
Enjoy!
