Bible Verses About The Biblical Canon

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

Direct passage on holding apostolic traditions.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

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In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Supports Scripture used for instruction and hope.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

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And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

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And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

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(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

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And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

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Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

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Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

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And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

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Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

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Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

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On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

Direct Bible passage about the threefold Scriptural witness.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Supports the idea of receiving apostolic word as God's word.

And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.

Supports apostolic and church reception of reports.

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Supports the idea that God's oracles were entrusted to a people.

For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

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For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

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And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Supports daily searching of Scripture.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

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And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Search the Scriptures passage.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

Supports Scripture not being private interpretation.

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

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If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

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And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.

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