For the Word of God is living, and powerfully working, and sharper than every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
As newborn babes desire the pure soul-nourishing milk, that you may grow by it; if indeed you “tasted” “that the Lord is good;” Psa. 33:9; Psa. 34:8
I have hidden Your Word in my heart, that I might not sin against You. I will delight myself in Your Statutes. I will not forget Your Word. Your Word is settled in Heaven forever, O Jehovah. Your faithfulness endures to generation and generation; You founded the earth, and it stands. Through the Word of Jehovah the heavens were made; and all their host were made by the breath of His mouth.
How sweet are Your Words to my palate! More than honey to my mouth! By Your Precepts I know; so then I hate every false way. Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Your Testimonies are wonderful; so my soul keeps them. The entering of Your Word gives light, giving discernment to the simple.
You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you. It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh does not profit, nothing! The Words which I speak to you are spirit and are life. The grass withers; the flower fades; but the Word of our God shall rise forever.
Answering, He said, It has been written: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every Word going out of the mouth of God.”
(He has humbled you, and caused you to hunger, and caused you to eat the manna, which you had not known, and your fathers had not known, in order to cause you to know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man shall live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. Deut. 8:3)
Being regenerated, not by corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and remaining forever. Because “all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of grass; the grass was dried, and its flower fell out, but the Word of the Lord remains forever.” And this is the Word announced as gospel to you. Isaiah 40:6-8
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in Him, If you continue in My Word, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
