That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence1 , preparation2 , and prayer3 , receive it with faith4 , and love5 , lay it up into our hearts6 , and practise it in our lives.7
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
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Psalm 119:18
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Hebrews 4:2
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
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.
Psalm 119:11
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
James 1:25
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.