Bible Quotes by John Piper

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

— John Piper

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be…

— John Piper

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

— John Piper

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

— John Piper

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

— John Piper

“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.”

— John Piper

“Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.”

— John Piper

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical…

— John Piper

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ…

— John Piper

“There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord…

— John Piper

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme…

— John Piper

“Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream…

— John Piper

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated…

— John Piper

“It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we…

— John Piper

“When you are tempted to forsake God because of the greatness of evil and misery in the world, may you remember that…

— John Piper

“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love,…

— John Piper

“Which means, therefore, that our Bible reading is never just for seeing, never just for learning and doctrine. It is not even…

— John Piper

So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume…

— John Piper

“Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we…

— John Piper

So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is…

— John Piper

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the…

— John Piper

“...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help…

— John Piper

“The Bible-oriented preacher wants the congregation to know that his words, if they have any abiding worth, are in accord with God’s…

— John Piper

“If anyone is going to see the gospel as true and good, satanic blindness and natural deadness must be overcome by the…

— John Piper

“This understanding of the divine will and the human will at work together is not restricted to the writing of Scripture. It…

— John Piper

“The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will…

— John Piper

“Therefore, we read the Bible selectively. We pick a text here and there to fit our felt needs. This is like a…

— John Piper

“The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save…

— John Piper

“Nowhere else in all the Bible is there a preface to a command like this one: “I charge you in the presence…

— John Piper

“This is how God has designed the Scriptures to work for human transformation and for the glory of God: the Scriptures reveal…

— John Piper

“God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the…

— John Piper

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to…

— John Piper

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,…

— John Piper

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe…

— John Piper

“The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted…

— John Piper

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and…

— John Piper