John 5:39

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

Acts 6:4

4But cwe will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

Acts 17:11

11Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, dexamining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

2 Timothy 2:15-17

15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,
That is,  one approved after being tested
a worker fwho has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
16But gavoid hirreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are iHymenaeus and Philetus,
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