WE ARE COMMANDED, EXHORTED, AND TAUGHT TO:
- To obey it (Ex. 19:5).
- To be diligent to always remember and never forget it (Deu. 4:9).
- To allow it to fill our heart, our household, and our conversation always (Deu. 6:7).
- To teach it to our children (Deu. 4:9, 6:7, 11:19).
- To live by it as our daily bread (Deu. 8:3).
- To read it every day (Deu. 17:19).
- To meditate on it day and night (Jos. 1:8).
- To explain it clearly and simply to people so they understand (Neh. 8:8).
- To esteem it as greater than our necessary food (Job 23:12).
- To hide it in our hearts to keep us from sin (Psa. 119:11).
- To delight in it as sweeter to our soul than honey is to our mouth (Psa. 119:103).
- To be the light that guides our lives (Psa. 119:105).
- To treasure it above all earthly treasure (Psa. 119:127).
- To be consumed with zeal for it (Psa. 119:139).
- To seek knowledge and wisdom from it like searching for hidden treasures (Pro. 2:3-4).
- To tremble at it in holy fear (Isa. 66:2).
- To have it burning in our heart like a fire in our bones (Jer. 20:9, Luk. 24:32).
- To pray over it according to its’ prophecies and promises (Dan. 9:2-3).
- To quote it in time of temptation (Mat. 4:4).
- To not contradict it by the traditions of men (Mark 7:13).
- To receive Christ to whom all the Scriptures bear witness (John 5:39).
- To allow the Holy Spirit to quicken it to our understanding (John 6:63).
- To be cleansed, sanctified and set apart to God by it (John 15:3, 17:17).
- To devote ourselves to it continually (Acts 2:42).
- To not neglect it for things of lesser importance (Acts 6:2).
- To search it and test all teaching by what is written (Acts 17:11).
- To convince and evangelize by it proving that Jesus is the Christ (Acts 18:28).
- To receive the Word and be built up in the faith by it (Acts 20:32).
- To not doubt or waver at the promises contained in it (Rom. 4:20).
- To hear it and allow it to impart faith to us hearts (Rom. 10:17).
- To receive hope and comfort by it (Rom. 15:4).
- To not handle it deceitfully (2 Cor. 4:2).
- To be washed with the water of the Word (Eph. 5:26).
- To use it as a sword to battle against evil (Eph. 6:17).
- To allow it to dwell in us richly with all wisdom and spiritual understanding (Col. 3:16).
- To speak it boldly even if men don’t like it (1 Th. 2:3).
- To receive it as having divine authority (1 Th. 2:13).
- To read it publicly and be taught by it (1 Tim. 4:13).
- To observe it without partiality (1 Tim. 5:21).
- To be diligent to understand it, interpret it and teach it correctly (2 Tim. 2:15).
- To know it and receive wisdom unto salvation by it (2 Tim. 3:15).
- To be taught, reproved, corrected, and trained by it (2 Tim. 3:16).
- To not give occasion for unbelievers to blaspheme it (Tit. 2:5).
- To believe it and receive its blessings by faith (Heb. 4:2).
- To grow up by it and develop discernment by it (Heb. 5:14).
- To highly esteem those who teach it to us (Heb. 13:7).
- To desperately crave it like a baby craves milk (1 Pet. 2:2).
- To not twist it to our own destruction (2 Pet. 3:16).
- To allow it to give us assurance of our salvation (1 John 5:13).
- To earnestly contend for the faith revealed in it (Jude 1:3).
- To be persecuted for our testimony to it and even die for it (Rev. 1:9, 6:9).
- To sing it in praise to God (Rev. 15:3).
- To not add to it or take away from it (Rev. 22:18-19).
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