Keach's Catechism · 1794

Q97. How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?

That the Word may become effectual to salvation we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation and prayer, receive it in faith and love, lay it up in our hearts and practice it in our lives.
Answer · Keach's Catechism

Scripture proofs

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    Proverbs 8:34

    Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

    1 Peter 2:1-2

    Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

    1 Timothy 4:13

    Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

    Hebrews 2:1

    Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

    Hebrews 2:3

    How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

    Hebrews 4:2

    For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

    2 Thessalonians 2:10

    And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    Psalms 119:11

    Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

    James 1:21

    Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

    James 1:25

    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.