Question 97 of 118
How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?
That the Word may become effectual to salvation we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation and prayer, receive it in faith and love, lay it up in our hearts and practice it in our lives.
Scripture proofs
- Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
- 1 Peter 2:1-2
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
- 1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
- Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
- Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
- Hebrews 4:2
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
- Psalm 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
- James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
- James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).