The Word
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Perhaps it is not our interpretation Scripture that makes us right with God near as much as our estimation.
“The word of the Lord” appears 255 times in AV Bible, 51 times in the book of Jeremiah alone, 60 in Ezekiel. “The word of God” appears another 45 times above that, not counting “My word(s)”, “God’s Word”, “The Word”, or other variations. Just in Psalms 119 alone, the word of God is directly referenced in all but 2 of the 176 verses.
The Word of God is a lamp, a light, a law, life, health, strength, wisdom, salvation, counsel, truth, deliverance, safety, justice, rejoicing, hope, help, righteous, pure, all powerful and everlasting. (Just to mention a few)
Key Scriptures: 1 Peter 1 KJV
24 ¶ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Lets look at a few other scriptures together in efforts to raise our estimation of the integrity of God’s Word.
Numbers 23: 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Psalms 89 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Isaiah 55
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Psalms 138: 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalms 119: 130 ¶ The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
John 17: 17 ¶ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Acts 20: 32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
John 1: 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Psalms 102:27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
John 8
31 ¶ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luke 5:1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the
Luke 5:15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
Luke 4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.
Acts 12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Acts 19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
