ANSWERS (utter, bear witness, pay attention, respond, sing, shout, announce, cry, hear, speak, testify)

BOOK (writing, evidence, letter, scroll, register)

SAID-SAYS (answers, says, commands, communes, declares, demands, names, reports, talks, tells, uses speech, utters, appoints, promises, teaches, word)

SCRIPTURE (written, writing, record, book, register, letter, note, epistle, document, holy writ)

SONG (instrumental music, praise)

TALKS (speak, subdue, answer, appoint, command, commune, declare, name, promise, pronounce, say, teach, think, utter)

VOICE (call aloud, sound, cry out, fame, lightness, noise, proclaim, disclosure, address, saying)

WORD (commandment, speech, cause, advice, answer, book, chronicles, decree, judgment, promise, sentence, something said or thought, reasoning, Divine expression, communication, doctrine, teaching) Word of Life, Sword of the Spirit, Glass, Word of Faith, Word of Truth, Word of the Lord, Word of God

WRITER (inscribe, describe, prescribe, subscribe, engraves, record)

[Often, the words: law, testimony, judgements, statutes, commandments, etc. are synonyms for the Word. As such, they are used in this chapter and made bold for emphasis.]

Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9. And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you? 10 And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

Genesis 6:13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 8:15 And God spoke to Noah

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own loins shall be your heir.

Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be you perfect. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,

Genesis 31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you harm: but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take you heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Genesis 35:1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother. 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

Genesis 46:2 And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

Exodus 4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.

Exodus 6:2 And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am the LORD:

Exodus 9:20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: 21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Exodus 17:14 And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Exodus 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 22. And the LORD said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 31:18 And to Moses, when he ceased speaking with him upon mount Sinai, he gave two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tables. 32 Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written. 33 And the LORD said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

Exodus 33:9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses. 11 And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

Exodus 34:1 And the LORD said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you did break. 27 And the LORD said to Moses, Write you these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 29 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 knew not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

Numbers 24:16 He has said, who heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

Deuteronomy 4:12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only you heard a voice. 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words from the midst of the fire.

Deuteronomy 5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face on the mount from the midst of the fire, 22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me. 23. And it came to pass, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroys before your face, so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 9:10 And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 30:10 If you shall hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you shall turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

1 Samuel 15:1 Samuel also said to Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken you to the voice of the words of the LORD.

2 Samuel 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a shield to all them that trust in him.

1 Kings 19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice to him, and said, What do you here, Elijah?

2 Kings 3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

1 Chronicles 16:15 Be you mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

Job 35:10 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

Job 37:4 After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellence; and he will not restrain them when his voice is heard. 5 God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things he does, which we cannot comprehend.

Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Job 40:9 Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like his?

Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.

Psalms 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation forever.

Psalms 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Psalms 29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is upon many waters. 4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. 7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire. 8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and makes bare the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory.

Psalms 32:7 You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Psalms 33:4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

Psalms 40:3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.

Psalms 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.

Psalms 46:6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Psalms 56:8 You number my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?

Psalms 69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Psalms 77:18 The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightning lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

Psalms 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.

Psalms 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them. 7 He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them. 8 You did answer them, O LORD our God: you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their deeds.

Psalms 104:7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hastened away.

Psalms 105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him. 34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

Psalms 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.

Psalms 118:14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

Psalms 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments. 7 I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments. 9 How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed to it according to your word. 11 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you. 16 I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word. 18 Open you my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. 22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies. 24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors. 25 My soul cleaves to the dust: revive you me according to your word. 28 My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen me according to your word. 31 I cleave to your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. 38 Establish your word to your servant, who is devoted to your fear. 41 Let your mercies come also to me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word. 42 So shall I have with which to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word. 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments. 45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts. 49 Remember the word to your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me. 52 I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. 54. Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 58. I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word. 62. At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous judgments. 65 You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. 72. The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver. 76. Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant. 77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for your law is my delight. 80. Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I may not be ashamed. 86 All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me. 89 Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven. 92. Unless your law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction. 93. I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have revived me. 94 I am yours, save me; for I have sought your precepts. 98 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts. 103 How sweet are your words to my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. 107. I am afflicted very much: revive me, O LORD, according to your word. 111 Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. 115 Depart from me, you evil doers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. 116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. 123 My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness. 129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them. 130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. 137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments. 138 Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful. 140 Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it. 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth. 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights. 144 The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. 149 Hear my voice according to your loving-kindness: O LORD, revive me according to your judgment. 151 You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth. 152 Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them forever. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to your word. 156 Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: revive me according to your judgments. 160 Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever. 161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word. 162 I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil. 164 Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments. 165 Great peace have they who love your law: and nothing shall cause them to stumble. 169 Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word. 170 Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word. 172 My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness. 173 Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts. 174 I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight. 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me.

Psalms 137:4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?

Psalms 138:2 I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving-kindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.

Psalms 139:16 Your eyes saw my substance, not yet formed; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalms 147:15 He sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly.

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield to them that put their trust in him.

Ecclesiastes 5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in the joy of his heart.

Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14. Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.

Isaiah 34:16 Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.

Isaiah 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see it: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withers, the flower fades: because the breath of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not there, but waters the earth, and makes 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 proceeds from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] for which I sent it.

Isaiah 58:9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you shall take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Isaiah 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speak-ing, I will hear.

Isaiah 66:2 For all these things has my hand made, and all these things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

Jeremiah 9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write for you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn you. 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Lamentations 2:17 The LORD has done that which he had devised; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the horn of your adversaries.

Ezekiel 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one speaking. 2:1 And he said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak to you. 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spoke to me. 8 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; Be not you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you. 9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent to me; and, lo, a scroll was in it; 10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Ezekiel 3:1 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go speak to the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, eat, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 4 And he said to me, Son of man, depart, go to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

Ezekiel 9:1 He cried also in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols; 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the foreigner that sojourns in Israel, who separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

Ezekiel 33:7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

Ezekiel 43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.

Daniel 5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote opposite the lamp-stand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. 25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. 28 PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Daniel 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. 9 Yet I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then I was in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. 21 But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holds with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Joel 2:19 And the LORD will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it: and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations:

Habbakuk 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that reads it.

Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over you with singing.

Zechariah 1:13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comforting words.

Zechariah 6:12 And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:

Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

Matthew 1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken from the Lord by the prophet,

Matthew 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For verily I say to you, Till heaven and earth shall pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 8:16 When the evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:

Matthew 17:5 While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear him.

Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and said to them, You do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Matthew 26:54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such like things you do.

Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Mark 15:27 And with him they crucified two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. 28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And he was numbered with the transgressors.

Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 21 And he began to say to them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. 22 And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? 32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.

Luke 8:5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bore fruit a hundred-fold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear. 9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What does this parable mean? 10 And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then comes the devil, and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. 13 They on the rock are they, who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 14 And that which fell among thorns are they, who, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground are they, who in a honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 10:20 However in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Luke 24:25 Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 14 And the Word was made 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.

John 3:29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but has passed from death to life. 25 Verily, verily, I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life. 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.

John 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water. 42 Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes from the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? 46 The officers answered, Never man spoke like this man.

John 8:28 Then said Jesus to them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things. 47 He that is of God hears God's words: you therefore hear them not, because you are not of God.

John 10:3 To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 4 And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

John 12:28 Father, glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him. 30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 48 He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

John 14:24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but that of the Father who sent me.

John 17:6 I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave to me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave to me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 14 I have given to them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17. Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.

John 18:37 Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

John 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. 28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they broke not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately came out blood and water. 36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37 And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

Acts 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will, in those, days pour out of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

Acts 3:21 Whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Acts 7:6 And God spoke in this way, That his offspring should sojourn in a foreign land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and oppress them four hundred years.

Acts 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shone around him a light from heaven: 4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you me? 5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the goads. 6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do. 7 And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. 10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 15 But the Lord said to him, Go: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

Acts 10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. 15 And the voice spoke to him again the second time, What God has cleansed, that call not you common. 16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received again into heaven.

Acts 12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.

Acts 18:28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

Acts 19:19 Many also of them who practiced magic brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

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 who are sanctified.

Romans 1:2 (Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

Romans 3:1 What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.

Romans 9:9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

Romans 10:8 But what says it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written in former times were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

2 Corinthians 3:3 For as much as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be more glorious?

2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. 22 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

Philippians 4:3 And I entreat you also, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe.

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons; 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works.

Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 Has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard him;

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him; 12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need of one to teach you again which are the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

Hebrews 7:28 For the law makes men high priests who have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated forevermore.

Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Hebrews 12:2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

James 1:18 Of his own will he has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 For he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away: 25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached to you.

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it:

2 Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him on the holy mount. 19. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which you do well that you take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one.

Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. 12 And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands; 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying to me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 19 Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be after this;

Revelation 2:17 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no man knows except he that receives it.

Revelation 3:5 He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. 10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 12 Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Revelation 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightning and thundering and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Revelation 10:8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, Go and take the little scroll which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and upon the earth.

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.

Revelation 17:8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.

Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. 15 And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 27 And there shall by no means enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whoever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Revelation 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Cross References: Gen. 9:8, 24:3-4, Dt. 13:18, 1 Sam. 9:27, 1 Chr. 25:5, Ezra 9:4, Ps. 18:30, 107:11, 118:5, 143:1, Is. 8:20, 39:5, Jer. 36"1-2. 27-28, 32, Eze. 10:5, Mt. 2;15, Acs 7:31, 9:27, 11:16, 19:10, Rom. 12:19, 1 Cor. 14:21, 2 Cor. 4:2, Eph. 1:13, Heb. 10:16, 13:22

See Also: Calls, Faithful, Jesus (pre and post incarnate), Joy, Judge, Knowledge, Light, Lord, Shepherd, Victorious

Hymns STANDING ON THE PROMISES; WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE; IN THE GARDEN; GOD THE OMNIPOTENT; A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD

Study and Application Questions

1. What concepts or details about God did you understand for the first time by reading this chapter?
2. In what ways did the definitions of God's attributes, etc. affect you?
3. How did the hymns and/or choruses listed reinforce the concepts in the verses?
4. Concerning the authors comments, did any of them challenge you in thought or action? Did you agree or disagree with them?
5. Which verses caused 'the light to come on' and the Holy Spirit impressed something to you? Is He challenging you to change anything?
6. What do you need or want God to minister to you or change about you after reading this chapter?
7. How will the attributes of God in this chapter affect your prayer, worship, and/or other aspects of your relationship with Him?
8. How will the attributes of God in this chapter affect how you minister to others, both to Christians and non-Christians?