Ler a Bíblia
Ler a Bíblia é essencial para a vida cristã. A Escritura é lâmpada para os pés, alimento para a alma e espada do Espírito. O cristão que lê a Bíblia é transformado pela Palavra.
A importância de ler
Meditar na Palavra dia e noite traz prosperidade e bom sucesso. Ler a Bíblia ilumina o entendimento e fortalece a fé.
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.
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.
Oh how I love your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,
for it is ever with me.
I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for your testimonies are my meditation.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.
With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!
I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
A Escritura é inspirada
Toda a Escritura é útil para ensinar, corrigir e instruir em justiça. Examine as Escrituras — nelas encontramos a vida eterna.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
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.
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
Estudar com diligência
Os bereanos eram mais nobres porque examinavam as Escrituras diariamente. O estudo dedicado da Bíblia produz maturidade espiritual.
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.
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You 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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
The Value of Wisdom
My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;