The Importance of Studying/Meditating on the Bible

Grantley Morris


Deuteronomy 6:6-9 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and 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 up. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 11:18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 17:19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it . . .

Job 22:22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Job 23:12  . . . I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalm 1:1-2 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the Lord’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 119:11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Psalm 119:97-99 How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.. Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation .

Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you

Proverbs 4:4 . . . Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Lord, God of Armies.

John 15:7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you . . .

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

(Emphasis mine.)

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