What Does the Bible Say About Bible Reading?

Joshua 1:8

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you 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.”

Psalm 119:105

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

2 Timothy 3:16

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”

Hebrews 4:12

“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

Romans 15:4

“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

Matthew 4:4

“But he answered, 'It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’'”

James 1:22

“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”