For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed."
For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
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,
"Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn't open his mouth.
Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
The 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."
But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."
Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."
For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."
The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was numbered with transgressors."
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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