Lesson 3 · Upper Room: Growing Deeper

The Word of God

The Bible is God’s own Word — our sure foundation, our authority, and our daily bread.

Key verse

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,”

2 Timothy 3:16 · NKJV

Inspired by God

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16)

Our lamp and guide

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105) It shows us how to live and keeps us from sin (Psalm 119:11).

Living and powerful

“For the word of God is living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword.” (Hebrews 4:12) Read it, believe it, and obey it.

Search the Scriptures

Read these passages in your Bible

  • 2 Timothy 3:16
  • Psalm 119:105
  • Hebrews 4:12

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version (NKJV).

Work through it

Three claims Scripture makes about itself

2 Timothy 3:16, Psalm 119:105, and Hebrews 4:12 are the study references, and each makes a different claim. Read 2 Timothy 3 from verse 14, where Paul is writing to a man who had known the Scriptures from childhood, and read on into verse 17 for what they are said to accomplish. Psalm 119 is long and rewards reading a stanza rather than a line; verse 105 sits in one of its twenty-two sections and verse 11, quoted above, sits in another. Hebrews 4:12 comes at the end of a warning about unbelief, so read from the start of the chapter — the context changes how the two-edged sword reads.

Where it sits

Third of six, and the one the others rest on

This is lesson three of Growing Deeper, after the oneness of God and the name of Jesus and before the church. In one sense it belongs first: every other lesson in both series asks you to check its claims in Scripture, and this is the lesson about why that check is worth anything. The step is to make Scripture daily food and the final authority — read, memorized, obeyed. If you want a way to work at the memorizing, the free Scripture memory cards are one, and a lesson a week with your Bible open beside it is another. All twelve lessons across the two series are free to read here and download as two print-ready booklets.