Passage cross-references.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, …

My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.