This index contains references to the word, words, mouth, and voice of the Lord. (Give particular attention to verses with boldface.)
The Word of God as True and Reliable
He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. (Deut. 8:3)
Now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant [David]. (2 Sam. 7:28)
As for God, His way is blameless; the word of the LORD is tested; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. (2 Sam. 22:31=Psa. 18:30)
Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth." (1 Kgs. 17:24)
The words of the LORD are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times. (Psa. 12:6)
The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether. (Psa. 19:7-9)
For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is done in faithfulness. (Psa. 33:4)
Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven. (Psa. 119:89)
Your word is very pure, therefore Your servant loves it. (Psa. 119:140)
The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting. Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words. I rejoice at Your word, as one who finds great spoil. (Psa. 119:160-162)
Let my tongue sing of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteousness. (Psa. 119:172)
I will bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth; for You have magnified Your word according to all Your name. (Psa. 138:2)
Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. Do not add to His words or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar. (Prov. 30:5-6)
"The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?" declares the LORD. (Jer. 23:28)
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken)... (John 10:35)
Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. (John 17:17)
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel. (Rom. 9:6)
But we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. (2 Cor. 4:2)
The Word of God as Powerful and Eternal
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD is over many waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is majestic. The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a wild ox. The voice of the LORD hews out flames of fire. The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the LORD makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare; and in His temple everything says, "Glory!" (Psa. 29:3-9)
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host. (Psa. 33:6)
He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. (Psa. 117:20)
Establish Your word to Your servant, as that which produces reverence for You. (Psa. 119:38)
This is my comfort in my affliction, that Your word has revived me. (Psa. 119:50)
The unfolding of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. (Psa. 119:130)
He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly. He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. He casts forth His ice as fragments; who can stand before His cold? He sends forth His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow and the waters to flow. (Psa. 147:15-18)
For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified, when He strikes with the rod. (Isa. 30:31)
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. (Isa. 40:8)
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. (Isa. 55:10-11)
Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, "Because you [Jeremiah] have spoken this word, behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire and this people wood, and it will consume them." (Jer. 5:14)
"Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?" (Jer. 23:29)
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. (Matt. 24:35=Mark 13:31=Luke 21:33)
And they were amazed at His teaching, for His message [lit., word] was with authority." (Mark 4:32)
And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. (Acts 20:32) [In the Greek, which modifies word, not grace.]
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. (Eph. 5:25-26)
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Eph. 6:17)
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel, for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned. (2 Tim. 2:8-9)
And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. (Heb. 1:3a)
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Heb. 4:12)
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. (Heb. 11:3)
For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off, but the word of the Lord endures forever." And this is the word which was preached to you. (1 Pet. 1:23-25)
For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth formed out of water and by water. (2 Pet. 3:5)
The Word of God as Jesus Christ
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life–and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us–what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:1-3)
He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. (Rev. 19:13)
The Word of God as God's Verbal Revelation
He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with Him in a dream." (Num. 12:6)
The oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet having his eyes uncovered." (Num. 24:4)
The oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet having his eyes uncovered." (Num. 24:16)
Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, "Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." (Deut. 4:10)
Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? (Deut. 4:33)
Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. (Deut. 4:36)
The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire, while I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. (Deut. 5:5)
Now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, then we will die. (Deut. 5:25)
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; you shall listen to him. This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die." The LORD said to me, "They have spoken well. I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him." (Deut. 18:15-18)
Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God." (Josh. 24:27)
Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor had the word of the LORD yet been revealed to him. (1 Sam. 3:7)
And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, because the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD. (1 Sam. 3:21)
The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me [David], and His word was on my tongue. (2 Sam. 23:2)
He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD, 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'" (1 Kgs. 13:2)
The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. (1 Kgs. 13:5)
For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, "You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way which you came." (1 Kgs. 13:9)
"For a command came to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way which you came.'" He said to him, "I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he was lying to him. (1 Kgs. 13:17-18)
For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria. (1 Kgs. 13:32)
Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of the LORD, "Please strike me." But the man refused to strike him. (1 Kgs. 20:35)
He sends forth His word to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel. (Psa. 147:19)
And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that He may teach us concerning His ways and that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (Isa. 2:3)
I have put My words in your mouth, and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, "You are My people." (Isa. 51:16)
"As for Me, this is My covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring," says the LORD, "from now and forever." (Isa. 59:21)
Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth." (Jer. 1:9)
Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will announce My words to you. (Jer. 18:2)
But you [Ezekiel] shall speak My words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious. (Ezek. 2:7)
Then He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them. (Ezek. 3:4)
Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I will speak to you and listen closely." (Ezek. 3:10)
Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us about His ways and that we may walk in His paths." For from Zion will go forth the law, even the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (Mic. 4:2)
The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: (Zech. 12:1)
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi: (Mal. 1:1)
For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure. (John 3:34)
And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence. (Acts 4:29)
When Moses saw it [the burning bush], he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord: (Acts 7:31)
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, "John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." (Acts 11:16)
In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." (Acts 20:35)
The Word of God As Verbal Revelation, Coming to a Prophet
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great." (Gen. 15:1)
Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him [Abram], saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir." (Gen. 15:4)
Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying... (1 Sam. 15:10)
But in the same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying... (2 Sam. 7:4)
When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying... (2 Sam. 24:11)
Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon saying... (1 Kgs. 6:11)
But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying... (1 Kgs. 12:22)
Now it came about, as they were sitting down at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back. (1 Kgs. 13:20)
Now the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying... (1 Kgs. 16:1)
The word of the LORD came to him [Elijah], saying... (1 Kgs. 17:2)
Then the word of the LORD came to him [Elijah], saying... (1 Kgs. 17:8)
Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." (1 Kgs. 18:1)
Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Israel shall be your name." (1 Kgs. 18:31)
Then he came there to a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" (1 Kgs. 19:9)
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying... (1 Kgs. 21:17=21:28)
Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him, saying... (2 Kgs. 20:4)
It came about the same night that the word of God came to Nathan, saying... (1 Chr. 17:3)
But the word of the LORD came to me [David], saying, "You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to My name, because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me." (1 Chr. 22:8)
But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying... (2 Chr. 11:2)
When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some measure of deliverance, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak." (2 Chr. 12:7)
Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying... (Isa. 38:4)
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. (Jer. 1:1-2)
Now the word of the LORD came to me [Jeremiah], saying... (Jer. 1:4)
The word of the LORD came to me saying, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I see a rod of an almond tree." (Jer. 1:11)
The word of the LORD came to me a second time saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north." (Jer. 1:13)
Now the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Jer. 2:1)
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying... (Jer. 7:1)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying... (Jer. 11:1=18:1=30:1)
Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying... (Jer. 13:3)
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Jer. 13:8=18:5=24:4)
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah in regard to the drought: (Jer. 14:1)
The word of the LORD also came to me saying... (Jer. 16:1)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying... (Jer. 21:1)
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). (Jer. 25:1)
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened. (Jer. 25:3)
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying... (Jer. 28:12)
Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying... (Jer. 29:30)
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. (Jer. 32:1)
And Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying..." (Jer. 32:6)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying... (Jer. 33:1)
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying... (Jer. 33:19)
And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying... (Jer. 33:23)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying... (Jer. 34:1)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them:" (Jer. 34:8)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying... (Jer. 34:12)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying... (Jer. 35:1)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying... (Jer. 35:12)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying... (Jer. 36:27)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying... (Jer. 37:6)
Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying... (Jer. 39:15)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon (Jer. 40:1)
Now at the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah. (Jer. 42:7)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying... (Jer. 43:8)
The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt, those who were living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and the land of Pathros, saying... (Jer. 44:1)
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. (Jer. 46:1)
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh conquered Gaza. (Jer. 47:1)
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying... (Jer. 49:34)
The word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him. (Ezek. 1:3)
At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Ezek. 3:16)
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Ezek. 6:1=14:2=20:2=21:1=22:17=22:23=24:15=25:1=28:20=33:1=38:1)
Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 7:1=12:17=17:11=27:1=35:1)
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Ezek. 11:14=12:1=12:21=13:1=15:1=16:1=18:1=22:1=33:23=34:1=36:16)
In the morning the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Ezek. 12:8)
Furthermore, the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Ezek. 12:26)
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Ezek. 17:1=20:45)
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Ezek. 21:8=28:11)
The word of the LORD came to me again, saying... (Ezek. 23:1)
And the word of the LORD came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying... (Ezek. 24:1)
Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me saying..." (Ezek. 24:20)
Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 26:1)
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying... (Ezek. 28:1=30:1=37:15)
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 29:1)
Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 29:17)
In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 30:20)
In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 31:1)
In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 32:1)
In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying... (Ezek. 32:17)
The word of the LORD which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Josiah, king of Israel. (Hos. 1:1)
The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: (Joel 1:1)
The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying... (Jonah 1:1)
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying... (Jonah 3:1)
The word of the LORD which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. (Mic. 1:1)
The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah: (Zeph. 1:1)
In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying... (Hag. 1:1)
Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying... (Hag. 1:3)
On the twenty-first of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet saying... (Hag. 2:1)
On the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying... (Hag. 2:10)
In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying... (Zech. 1:1)
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, as follows: (Zech. 1:7)
Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying... (Zech. 4:8)
The word of the LORD also came to me, saying... (Zech. 6:9)
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. (Zech. 7:1)
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying... (Zech. 7:4=8:18)
Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying... (Zech. 7:8)
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying... (Zech. 8:1)
In the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. (Luke 3:2)
The Word of God As Verbal Revelation, Reported ("Hear the word of the Lord")
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God." (Josh. 3:9)
Then Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over His people, over Israel; now therefore, listen to the words of the LORD." (1 Sam. 15:1)
Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left." (1 Kgs. 22:19)
Then Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the LORD; thus says the LORD, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria." (2 Kgs. 7:1)
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD." (2 Kgs. 20:16)
Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left." (2 Chr. 18:18)
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah. (Isa. 1:10)
Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem. (Isa. 28:14)
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts." (Isa. 39:5)
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His word: Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name's sake, have said, "Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy." But they will be put to shame, a voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the LORD who is rendering recompense to His enemies. (Isa. 66:5-6)
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. (Jer. 2:4)
Stand in the gate of the LORD's house and proclaim there this word and say, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the LORD!" (Jer. 7:2)
Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth; teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor a dirge. (Jer. 9:20)
And say to them, "Listen to the word of the LORD, kings of Judah, and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates:" (Jer. 17:20)
And say, "Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.'" (Jer. 19:3)
Then say to the household of the king of Judah, "Hear the word of the LORD." (Jer. 21:11)
And say, "Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on David's throne, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates." (Jer. 22:2)
O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD! (Jer. 22:29)
You, therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. (Jer. 29:20)
Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare in the coastlands afar off, and say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock." (Jer. 31:10)
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you, "You will not die by the sword." (Jer. 34:4)
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt:" (Jer. 44:24)
Nevertheless hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt, "Behold, I have sworn by My great name," says the LORD, "never shall My name be invoked again by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, 'As the Lord GOD lives.'" (Jer. 44:26)
And say, "Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: 'Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.'" (Ezek. 6:3)
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own inspiration, "Listen to the word of the LORD!" (Ezek. 13:2)
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD. (Ezek. 16:35)
And say to the forest of the Negev, "Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every green tree in you, as well as every dry tree;" (Ezek. 20:47a)
And say to the sons of Ammon, "Hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you said, "Aha!" against My sanctuary when it was profaned...'" (Ezek. 25:3a)
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: (Ezek. 34:7=34:9)
And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, "O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD." (Ezek. 36:1)
Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys... (Ezek. 36:4a)
Again He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.'" (Ezek. 27:4)
Listen to the word of the LORD, O sons of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the inhabitants of the land, because there is no faithfulness or kindness or knowledge of God in the land. (Hos. 4:1)
Now hear the word of the LORD, "Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile." (Amos 7:16)
This man [Sergius Paulus] summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. (Acts 13:7)
The next Sabbath nearly the whole city assembled to hear the word of the Lord. (Acts 13:44)
This took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. (Acts 19:10)
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. (1 Thes. 2:13)
The Word of God As Verbal Revelation, Reported (other)
Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which He had sent him, and all the signs that He had commanded him to do. (Exod. 4:28)
Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the LORD and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do!" (Exod. 24:3)
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. Also, he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and stationed them around the tent. (Num. 11:24)
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king. (1 Sam. 8:10)
As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Say to the servant that he might go ahead of us and pass on, but you remain standing now, that I may proclaim the word of God to you." (1 Sam. 10:27)
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Is it not so, if there will be peace and truth in my days?" (2 Kgs. 20:19)
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "For there will be peace and truth in my days." (Isa. 39:8)
But as soon as Jeremiah, whom the LORD their God had sent, had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God–that is, all these words... (Jer. 43:1)
Then he [the angel] said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts." (Zech. 4:6)
Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. (Luke 5:1)
She [Martha] had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord's feet, listening to His word. (Luke 10:39)
And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. (Acts 4:31)
So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. (Acts 8:25)
When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper. (Acts 13:5)
But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching with many others also, the word of the Lord. After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are." (Acts 15:35-36)
And they spoke the word of the Lord to him [the jailer] together with all who were in his house. (Acts 16:32)
But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds. (Acts 17:13)
And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. (Acts 18:11)
...and that most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word without fear. (Phil. 1:14)
Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God, that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Col. 1:25-27)
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. (1 Thes. 4:15)
Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior. (Titus 1:3)
Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever. (Heb. 13:7)
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. (Rev. 1:2)
The Word of God as Verbal Revelation, Written Down
Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. (Exod. 24:4)
You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth. (Deut. 11:18-21)
And you shall again listen to the voice of the LORD, and observe all His commandments which I command you today. Then the LORD your God will prosper you abundantly in all the word of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; if you obey the LORD your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul. (Deut. 30:8-10)
I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. (Jer. 25:13)
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which He had spoken to him. (Jer. 36:4)
So you [Baruch] go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation the words of the LORD to the people in the LORD's house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities. (Jer. 36:6)
Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house. (Jer. 36:8)
Now when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the LORD from the book," (Jer. 36:11)
In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. (Dan. 9:2)
The Word of God Fulfilled
The LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not." (Num. 11:23)
...so that the LORD may carry out His promise [lit., word] which He spoke concerning me [David], saying, "If your sons are careful of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel." (1 Kgs. 2:4)
So Solomon dismissed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD, which He had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. (1 Kgs. 2:27)
Concerning this house which you [Solomon] are building, if you will walk in My statutes and executes My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father. (1 Kgs. 6:12)
Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I [Solomon] have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. (1 Kgs. 8:20=2 Chr. 6:10)
Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray, be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David. (1 Kgs. 8:26)
Moreover, the word of the LORD through the prophet Jehu also came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil which he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck it. (1 Kgs. 16:7)
Therefore they returned and told him. And he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.'" (2 Kgs. 9:36)
Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah. (2 Kgs. 10:10)
This is the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." And so it was. (2 Kgs. 15:12)
Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let Your word be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant David." (2 Chr. 6:17)
So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from God that the LORD might establish His word, which He spoke through Abijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (2 Chr. 10:15)
Those who had escaped from the sword he [Nebuchadnezzar] carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete. (2 Chr. 36:20-21)
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia–in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah–the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying... (2 Chr. 36:23)
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying... (Ezra 1:1)
You found his [Abraham's] heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give him the land of the Canaanite, of the Hittite and the Amorite, of the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite–to give it to his descendants. And You have fulfilled Your promise [lit., word], for You are righteous. (Neh. 9:8)
Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it." (Jer. 1:12)
I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. (Jer. 25:13)
Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to bring My words on this city for disaster and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day." (Jer. 39:16)
"This will be the sign to you," declares the LORD, "that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for harm." (Jer. 44:29)
The LORD has done what He purposed; He has accomplished His word which He commanded from days of old. He has thrown down without sparing, and He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the might of your adversaries. (Lam. 2:17)
Therefore say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'None of My words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,' declares the Lord GOD." (Ezek. 12:28)
Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem. (Dan. 9:12)
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, "As the LORD of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us." (Zech. 1:6)
And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, "Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly. (Matt. 26:75)
The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times." (Luke 22:61)
For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled. (Rev. 17:17)
Things Done in Accordance with God's Word (= Fulfillment)
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. (Deut. 34:5)
Now when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the command [lit., mouth] of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him." (1 Kgs. 13:26)
All Israel buried him [Jeroboam's child] and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet. (1 Kgs. 14:18)
Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet. (1 Kgs. 16:12)
The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah. (1 Kgs. 17:16)
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his [Ahab's] blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the LORD which He spoke. (1 Kgs. 22:38)
So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. (2 Kgs. 1:17)
So he [Elisha] set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. (2 Kgs. 4:44)
So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. (2 Kgs. 7:16)
"Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons," says the LORD, "and I will repay you in this property," says the LORD. Now then, take and cast him [Joram] into the property, according to the word of the LORD. (2 Kgs. 9:26)
He [Jeroboam] restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher. (2 Kgs. 14:25)
Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. (2 Kgs. 23:16)
The LORD sent against him [Jehoiakim] bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken through His servants the prophets. (2 Kgs. 24:2)
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel. (1 Chr. 11:3)
Now these are the heads of the mighty men whom David had, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel. (1 Chr. 11:10)
Now these are the numbers of the divisions equipped for war, who came to David at Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word [lit., mouth] of the LORD. (1 Chr. 12:23)
All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer to exalt him according to the words of God, for God gave fourteen sons and three daughters to Heman. (1 Chr. 25:5)
My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word. (Psa. 119:25)
My soul weeps because of grief; strengthen me according to Your word. (Psa. 119:28)
May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O LORD, Your salvation according to Your word; so I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your word. (Psa. 119:41-42)
I sought Your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your word. (Psa. 119:58)
You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word. (Psa. 119:65)
O may Your lovingkindness comfort me, according to Your word to Your servant. (Psa. 119:76)
I am exceedingly afflicted; revive me, O LORD, according to Your word. (Psa. 119:107)
Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live; and do not let me be ashamed of my hope. (Psa. 119:116)
Plead my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word. (Psa. 119:154)
Let my cry come before You, O LORD; give me understanding according to Your word. Let my supplication come before You; deliver me according to Your word. (Psa. 119:169-170)
Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD and said to me, "Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the rights of possession and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself." Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. (Jer. 32:8)
Now Lord, You are releasing Your bond-servant [Simeon] to depart in peace, according to Your word. (Luke 2:29)
Things Done in Accordance with God's Word (= Obedience)
So Moses numbered them according to the word [lit., mouth] of the LORD, just as he had been commanded. (Num. 3:16)
Then Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and to his sons, at the command [lit., mouth] of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. (Num. 3:51)
These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment [lit., mouth] of the LORD through Moses. (Num. 4:45)
Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph are right in their statements. (Num. 36:5)
Israel took only the cattle and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua. (Josh. 8:27)
In accordance with the command of the LORD they gave him [Joshua] the city for which he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. So he built the city and settled in it. (Josh. 19:50)
The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed from the sons of Israel at Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession which they had possessed, according to the command [lit., mouth] of the LORD through Moses. (Josh. 22:9)
"Thus says the LORD, 'You must not go up and fight against your brothers the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way according to the word of the LORD. (1 Kgs. 12:24)
So he [Elijah] went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. (1 Kgs. 17:5)
The sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD. (1 Chr. 15:15)
Now slaughter the Passover animals, sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses. (2 Chr. 35:6)
How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word. (Psa. 119:9)
So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the LORD and put it around my waist. (Jer. 13:2)
So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk. (Jonah 3:3)
The Word of God Obeyed or Disobeyed
The one among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses; but he who paid no regard to the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field. (Exod. 9:20-21)
And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer." (Exod. 15:26)
Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small or great, contrary to the command [lit., mouth] of the LORD my God. (Num. 22:18)
...if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God. (Deut. 13:18)
However, there will be no poor among you, since the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today. (Deut. 15:4-5)
I have not eaten of it [sacred food] while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me. (Deut. 26:14)
You shall therefore listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today. (Deut. 27:10)
Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the LORD your God. (Deut. 28:1-2)
"Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but rushed upon the spoil and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD?" Then Saul said to Samuel, "I did obey the voice of the LORD, and went on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites." (1 Sam. 15:19-20)
"Thus says the LORD, 'You must not go up and fight against your brothers the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way according to the word of the LORD. (1 Kgs. 12:24)
In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun. (1 Kgs. 16:34)
"Thus says the LORD, 'You shall not go up or fight against your brothers; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me.'" So they listened to the words of the LORD and returned from going against Jeroboam. (2 Chr. 11:4)
They assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD. (2 Chr. 29:15)
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the LORD. (2 Chr. 30:12)
"Because your heart was tender and you [Josiah] humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you," declares the LORD. (2 Chr. 34:27)
As for the deeds of men, by the word of Your lips I have kept from the paths of the violent. (Psa. 17:4)
Bless the LORD, you His angels, mighty in strength, who perform His word, obeying the voice of His word! (Psa. 103:20)
He sent darkness and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His words. (Psa. 105:28)
The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left. Then they believed His words; they sang His praise. (Psa. 106:11-12)
Your word have I treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You. (Psa. 119:11)
I shall delight in Your statutes; I shall not forget Your word. Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word. (Psa. 119:16-17)
The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words. (Psa. 119:57)
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word. (Psa. 119:67)
May those who fear You see me and be glad, because I wait for Your word. (Psa. 119:74)
I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word. (Psa. 119:101)
My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten Your words. (Psa. 119:139)
I behold the treacherous and loathe them, because they do not keep Your word. (Psa. 119:158)
Fire and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling His word. (Psa. 148:8)
"For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word." (Isa. 66:2)
O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, "We are free to roam; we will no longer come to You"? (Jer. 2:31)
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. (Jer. 3:25)
To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them; they have no delight in it. (Jer. 6:10)
You shall say to them, "This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth." (Jer. 7:28)
The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and caught; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what kind of wisdom do they have? (Jer. 8:9)
They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers. (Jer. 11:10)
Now therefore amend your ways and your deeds and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent concerning the misfortune which He has pronounced against you. (Jer. 26:13)
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, '"Will you not receive instruction by listening to My words?" declares the LORD.'" (Jer. 35:13)
But neither he [Zedekiah] nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD which He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet. (Jer. 37:2)
But Jeremiah said, "They will not give you over. Please listen to the voice of the LORD in what I am saying to you, that it may go well with you and you may live." (Jer. 38:20)
Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the LORD our God. (Jer. 42:6)
So I have told you today, but you have not listened to the voice of the LORD your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you. (Jer. 42:21)
So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah. (Jer. 43:4)
And they entered the land of Egypt (for they did not obey the voice of the LORD) and went in as far as Tahpanhes. (Jer. 43:7)
Nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets. (Dan. 9:10)
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people showed reverence for the LORD. (Hag. 1:12)
"Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the LORD." Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And it will take place if you completely listen to the voice of the LORD your God. (Zech. 6:15)
You no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother; thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that. (Mark 7:12-13)
But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it." (Luke 8:21)
But He said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it." (Luke 11:28)
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. (John 5:24)
You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent. (John 5:38)
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words? (John 5:47)
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine." (John 8:31)
I know that you are Abraham's descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. (John 8:37)
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. (John 8:43)
Jesus answered and said to him [Judas of James], "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. (John 14:23)
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (John 15:7)
I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. (John 17:6)
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.... When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. (Acts 13:46, 48)
But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror.... (Jam. 2:22-23)
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us. (1 John 1:10)
But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him. (1 John 2:5)
I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. (1 John 2:14b)
I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name. (Rev. 3:8)
