Top 30 Bible Verses about Reading

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Seek from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall lack her mate.

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

But He answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about Me.

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.

Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O LORD, God of hosts.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

The unfolding of Your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Be still, and know that I am God.

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

But He said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Take away from me their scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in Him, “If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

We read to know we are not alone.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.