Deuteronomy 6:6-7

6And athese words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 bYou 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.

Ezra 10:1

The People Confess Their Sin

1 cWhile Ezra prayed and dmade confession, weeping and ecasting himself down fbefore the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

Psalms 19:7-11

7 gThe law of the Lord is perfect,
Or blameless

ireviving the soul;
jthe testimony of the Lord is ksure,
lmaking wise mthe simple;
8 nthe precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is opure,
penlightening the eyes;
9the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules
Or just decrees
of the Lord are rtrue,
and righteous altogether.
10More to be desired are they than sgold,
even much tfine gold;
usweeter also than honey
and drippings of vthe honeycomb.
11Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
win keeping them there is great reward.

John 5:39

39 xYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and yit is they that bear witness about me,

2 Timothy 3:15-17

15and how zfrom childhood you have been acquainted with aathe sacred writings, abwhich are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 acAll Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17that adthe man of God
That is, a messenger of God (the phrase echoes a common Old Testament expression)
may be complete, afequipped agfor every good work.

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