The list below is an attempt to compile all of the verses (about 50) that are or may be used in reference to the Bible’s teaching its doctrine of the providential preservation of the text of Scripture.
- I do not claim the list is exhaustive. There are probably other verses that some people use to support the Bible’s teaching its doctrine of the providential preservation of the text of Scripture. If you know of others that should be added, please let me know.
- I do not claim that every verse listed should be used in reference to the Bible’s teaching its doctrine of the providential preservation of the text of Scripture. (If it is on the list, I saw it used somewhere, sometime.)
- I do not claim that those who use these verses listed necessarily mean all of the verses directly teach about preservation of the text of Scripture. In other words, they may draw broad principles from some of them.
Here is the list, as compiled and “finished” as of August 10, 2022. Hope it is useful. Use it wisely.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
- Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
- Deuteronomy 30:14 (cf. Romans 10:8) But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
- Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
- Job 19:23-24 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
- Psalm 12:6-7 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
- Psalm 19:8-9 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
- Psalm 33:11 The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- Psalm 78:5-7 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
- Psalm 100:5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
- Psalm 105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
- Psalm 111:7-8 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
- Psalm 117:2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.
- Psalm 119:89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
- Psalm 119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
- Psalm 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
- Psalm 146:6 which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
- Proverbs 22:12 The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
- Proverbs 22:20-21 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
- Proverbs 30:5-6 Every word of God is pure:
he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
- Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
- Isaiah 34:16 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.
- Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
- Isaiah 55:10-11 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
- Isaiah 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
- Matthew 4:4 (cf. Luke 4:4) But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
- Matthew 5:17-18 (cf. Luke 16:17) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
- Matthew 24:35 (cf. Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33) Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
- Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
- Luke 16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
- Luke 24:27 (cf. vv. 44-45) And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
- John 10:34-36 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
- John 12:47-48 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
- John 17:17 (cf. vv. 8, 20) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
- Romans 3:2 (cf. Deuteronomy 31:9) ...unto them were committed the oracles of God.
- Romans 15:4 (cf. 1 Corinthians 9:10; 10:6-11) For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
- 1 Corinthians 11:23 (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:1-3) For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you...
- Ephesians 2:20 and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
- 1 Timothy 3:15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 2 Timothy 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
- 2 Timothy 3:15-17 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. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
- 1 Peter 1:23–25 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
- 2 Peter 1:19-21 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
- 2 Peter 3:1-2 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
- Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
- Revelation 22:18-19 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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