Deuteronomy 6:6-9
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. 8 cYou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 dYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.Deuteronomy 11:18
18 e“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and fyou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.Joshua 1:8
8This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but gyou shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.Psalms 1:2
2but his hdelight is in the law ▼▼Or instruction
of the Lord,and on his jlaw he meditates day and night.
Psalms 119:97-100
Mem
97 Oh how kI love your law!It is my lmeditation all the day.
98Your commandment makes me mwiser than my enemies,
for it is ever with me.
99I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for nyour testimonies are my meditation.
100I understand more than othe aged, ▼
▼Or the elders
for I qkeep your precepts.
John 5:39
39 rYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and sit is they that bear witness about me,2 Timothy 3:15-17
15and how tfrom childhood you have been acquainted with uthe sacred writings, vwhich are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 wAll Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17that xthe man of God ▼▼That is, a messenger of God (the phrase echoes a common Old Testament expression)
may be complete, zequipped aafor every good work.
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