V1-11 Life Guide or Life Giver?

How do God’s words have the power to give life? What did Jesus mean that His words are spirit and life? And how is the Word of God imperishable and eternal? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week’s edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.

Bible Passages

The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.

Memory Passage: Isaiah 40:8

Isaiah 40:8

8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Connection Passage #1: 1 Peter 1:23–25

1 Peter 1:23–25

23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

25 but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

Connection Passage #2: Matthew 5:17–18

Matthew 5:17–18

17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

18 For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Connection Passage #3: John 6:63

John 6:63

63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.


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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB).