1. The command of our Lord: “Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.”—John 5:39.
2. They will make a boy wise: “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.”—2 Timothy 2:15.
3. They will cleanse his way: “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy Word.”—Psalms 119:9.
4. They will be a lamp and a light: “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. The entrance of Thy Words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple.”—Psalm 119:195, 130.
5. The Bible will do more for you than father or mother: “When thou goest, it shall lead thee: when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee: and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.”—Proverbs 6:22.
6. By the Word you are born again: “Being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”—1 Peter 1:23.
7. By the Word you grow: “As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby.”—1 Peter 2:2.
CHAPTER XXIII
Be a Bible Student
Never was there an age with so many books as the present; books to amuse and instruct, books of fact and fiction, but the greatest and grandest is the Bible. “It has,” as Locke said, “God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without mixture of error for its matter,—it is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much, nothing wanting.”