They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,

And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”

And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”

Jesus Foretells His Death a Third Time

And taking the twelve, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me has its fulfillment.”

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—

In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.

But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.

Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

The Purpose of This Book

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

“For it is written in the Book of Psalms, “‘May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it’; and “‘Let another take his office.’

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’

And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,

And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”

But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them

For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”

as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,

But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on 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.

and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”

But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God

but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.

And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,

As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”

As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.

For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”

how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.

The Day of the Lord

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

Final Greetings

I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Final Greetings

By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.

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.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

The Scroll and the Lamb

Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

The Lamb and the 144,000

Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.

His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.

On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.