For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

For the scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty!”

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

For the scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker deserves his pay.”

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given – because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ – to those who believe.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

For it says in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.”

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”