WHY SHOULD YOU STUDY SCRIPTURE?

1- ALL SCRIPTURE US USEFUL

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV

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

2-ALL SCRIPTURE POINTS TO CHRIST

John 5:39 (ESV)

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

3-IT HELPS YOU GUARD AGAINST FALSE TEACHING.

Acts 17:10–11 ESV

10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

4-SCRIPTURE IS GOD SPEAKING TO US.

2 Peter 1:20–21 (ESV)

20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation.

21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

5- SCRIPTURE EXAMINES THE HEARTS OF INDIVIDUALS.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV

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.

6- IT IS KEY IN OUR SANCTIFICATION

John 17:17 ESV

17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

7-IT IS OUR GUIDE

James 1:22 ESV

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