100 Bible Verses About Understanding Scripture

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

And God spake all these words, saying,

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word.

And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher–shalal–hash–baz.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken?

Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth–pisgah eastward.

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

That the Lord spake unto me, saying,

And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth–jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah:

And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah–hepher, to Ittah–kazin, and goeth out to Remmon–methoar to Neah;

Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.

(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon,

And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.