The Bible says that the words of God are the truth. The words of the Lord are spirit and life and are both water and fire. The word of God is a lamp and a light and is quick, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and delivers, heals, and gives life to everyone, who believes. The whole creation is created by the Word of God and testifies of God. The words of the Lord cause sinners to repent and turn from their wicked ways. האלה, who have found the Word have found the Way, the Truth and the Life. To them the words of God are precious, since they are the truth and contain the knowledge, wisdom and life of God. They listen to the words of God and believe and obey them. They that love God’s words love Jesus and the Father and keep His words and commandments in their heart and do them, so that they stay in Him. They obey His words and follow after righteousness because they love righteousness and hate sin and iniquity, just as their Lord and Father of Whom they are born. The words of the Father will be in the mouths and hearts of His sons (זה חל על זכרים ונקבות כאחד) forever.
What does the Bible say about the words of God?
The Bible is the Word of God, but what does the Bible say about the words of God? Below are some of the many Scriptures about the words of God.
The words of God are the truth
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of Thy righteous judgments endures for ever (מִזמוֹר 119:160)
Thou art near, הו אדון; and all Thy commandments are truth (מִזמוֹר 119:151).
For the word of the Lord is right; and all His works are done in truth (מִזמוֹר 33:4).
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Thy law is the truth (מִזמוֹר 119:142)
Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth (ג'ון 17:17-19)
The words of God are knowledge, wisdom and understanding
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly (פתגמים 2:6-7)
The worlds are framed by the word of God
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth (מִזמוֹר 33:6)
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 do appear (עברים 11:3 (קרא גם: Did God create the heaven and earth in six days?))
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men (2 פיטר 3:5-7)
The words of God are spirit and life
My son, attend to My words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh (פתגמים 4:20-21)
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts (מִזמוֹר 119:45)
And Jesus answered him, פִּתגָם, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God (לוק 4:4)
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (ג'ון 6:63)
The words of God are quick and powerful and sharper than any twoedged sword
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (עברים 4:11-13)
The words of God are righteousness
My tongue shall speak of Thy word: for all Thy commandments are righteousness (מִזמוֹר 119:172)
The words of God are a lamp and a light
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep Thy righteous judgments (מִזמוֹר 119:105-106)
The entrance of Thy words give light; it gives understanding unto the simple (מִזמוֹר 119:130)
The words of God are like fire
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, לְהַבִּיט, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them (ירמיהו 5:14 (קרא גם: God’s Word is a consuming fire)
Is not My word like as a fire? סאית ה'; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? (ירמיהו 23:29)
The words of God are like water
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in Me, and I in you (ג'ון 15:3)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (אפסים 5:25-27 קרא גם: The washing water of the Word))
The words of God are pure and keeps the way of the believer pure
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times (מִזמוֹר 12:6)
באשר לאלוהים, הדרך שלו מושלמת; דבר ה' נשפט: He is a buckler to all them that trust in Him (2 Samuel 22:31, מִזמוֹר 18:30)
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy word (מִזמוֹר 119:9)
I have refrained (restrained) my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Thy word. I have not departed from Thy judgments: for Thou hast taught me. How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through Thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way (מִזמוֹר 119:101-104)
Thy word is very pure: therefore Thy servant loves it (מִזמוֹר 119:140)
The words of God turn sinners from their wicked ways (if the sinner wants to)
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings (ירמיהו 23:21-22)
The words of God deliver and save
He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions (מִזמוֹר 107:20 (קרא גם: What does it mean God send His Word and healed them?))
Let Thy mercies come also unto me, הו אדון, even Thy salvation, according to Thy word (מִזמוֹר 119:41)
Turn you at My reproof: לְהַבִּיט, אשפוך את רוחי אליך, I will make known My words unto you (פתגמים 1:23)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life (ג'ון 5:24 (קרא גם: דבר אלוהים מביא גאולה).
The words of God comfort and quicken
Remember the word unto Thy servant, upon which Thou hast caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me (given me live (מִזמוֹר 119:49-50)
Unless Thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget Thy precepts: for with them Thou has quickened me (given me life (מִזמוֹר 119:92-93)
What will happen to those, who don’t believe the words of God?
Jesus cried and said, He that believes on Me, believes not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. And he that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me. אני בא אור לעולם, that whosoever believes on Me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
He that rejects Me, and receives not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak (ג'ון 12:44-50 (קרא גם: God’s Word has the final word on the Day of Judgment))
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not Thy statutes (מִזמוֹר 119:155)
This evil people, which refuse to hear My words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto Me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, סאית ה'; that they might be unto Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear (ירמיהו 13:10-11 (קרא גם: דבר אלוהים מביא פילוג))
What will happen to those, who are ashamed of the words of God?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels (Mark 8:38, לוק 9:26 (קרא גם: Jesus wasn’t ashamed))
The sons of God listen to the words of God
Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the Rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged (ישעיהו 51:1)
Hearken unto Me, My people; and give ear unto Me, O My nation: for a law shall proceed from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of the people. My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon Me and on Mine arm shall they trust (ישעיהו 51:4-5)
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (הרומאים 10:17)
The sons of God believe and trust in the words of God
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in Thy word (מִזמוֹר 119:42)
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believe Thy commandments (מִזמוֹר 119:66)
The words of God abides in His sons
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one (1 ג'ון 2:14)
If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples (ג'ון 15:7-8)
The sons of God love the words of God and keep His words
I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways. I will delight myself in Thy statutes: I will not forget Thy word. Deal bountifully with Thy servant, that I may live, and keep Thy word (מִזמוֹר 119:16-17 (קרא גם: The sons of God walk in the truth of God’s Word))
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee (מִזמוֹר 119:11)
I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved. My hands also will I lift up unto Thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in Thy statutes (מִזמוֹר 119:47-48)
Thou art my portion, הו אדון: I have said that I would keep Thy words (מִזמוֹר 119:57)
Quicken me after Thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of Thy mouth (מִזמוֹר 119:88)
I hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love (מִזמוֹר 119:113)
My son, keep My words, and lay up My commandments with thee. Keep My commandments, and live; and My law as the apple of thine eye (פתגמים 7:1-2 (קרא גם: God’s Word is a mirror))
Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar (פתגמים 30:5-6)
And He answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it (לוק 8:21)
But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it (לוק 11:28)
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him. He that loves Me not keeps not My sayings: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father’s which sent Me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you (ג'ון 14:23-26 (קרא גם: Let the Word be your Judge))
The sons of God speak the words of God and shall not be ashamed
Blessed art Thou, o Lord: teach me Thy statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of Thy mouth (מִזמוֹר 119:12-13)
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in Thy judgments. So shall I keep Thy law continually for ever and ever (מִזמוֹר 119:43-44)
I believed, therefore have I spoken (מִזמוֹר 116:10)
My tongue shall speak of Thy word: for all Thy commandments are righteousness (מִזמוֹר 119:172)
I will speak of Thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed (מִזמוֹר 119:46)
As for Me, this is My covenant with them, סאית ה'; My spirit that is upon thee, and My words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, סאית ה', from henceforth and for ever (ישעיהו 59:21)
ויאמר אליהם, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15)
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him (ג'ון 3:33-34)
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness (מתנהג 4:31)
We having the same Spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak (2 קורינתים 4:13)
וקח את קסדת הישועה, וחרב הרוח, שהוא דבר אלוהים (אפסים 6:17)
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held (הִתגַלוּת 6:9)
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years (הִתגַלוּת 20:4)
The sons of God delight and rejoice in the words of God
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of Thy word. I rejoice at Thy word, as one that findeth great spoil (מִזמוֹר 119:162-163)
I have rejoiced in the way of Thy testimonies, as much as in all riches (מִזמוֹר 119:14)
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors (מִזמוֹר 119:24)
All the words of God shall come to pass
For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that [for] which I sent it (ישעיהו 55:10-11)
Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; There shall none of My words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God (יחזקאל 12:28)
The words of God stand forever
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of Thy righteous judgments endures for ever (מִזמוֹר 119:160)
Concerning Thy testimonies, I have known of old that Thou hast founded them forever (מִזמוֹר 119:151)
Forever, הו אדון, Thy word is settled in heaven (מִזמוֹר 119:89)
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away (מתיו 24:35 Mark 13:31, לוק 21:33 (קרא גם: God’s Word is settled forever))
בראותם אתכם טיהרתם את נשמתכם בציות לאמת באמצעות הרוח לאהבתם הבלתי מעורערת של האחים, ראו שאתם אוהבים זה את זה בלב טהור בלהט: להיוולד מחדש, לא של זרע מושחת, אלא של בלתי מושחת, בדבר אלוהים, which liveth and abides for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away: But the word of the Lord endures for ever (1 פיטר 1:22-25)
לְהַבִּיט, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this Book
הִתגַלוּת 22:7
'היה מלח הארץ’