Luke 4:32

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”

Many believed in him there.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!”

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

Many more believed because of his word.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.