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Martin Luther Quotes about Scripture

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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

Safe, Scripture, Helping

1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

Simple, Scripture, Pope

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Men, Scripture, Crosses

Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.25

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Men, Scripture, Reason

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

Scripture, Students, Hell

Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Scripture, Christ, Remove

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

Simple, Men, Scripture

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

Jesus, Dying, Scripture

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

Prayer, Judging, Scripture

Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.2

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

Men, Scripture, Speak

Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Scripture, Speak, Christianity

In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

Bible, Too Much, Scripture

Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

Scripture, Christ, Masters

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

Upset, Earth, Scripture

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

Wife, Doe, Scripture

Letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück (An Den Kanzler Brück), (January 13, 1524) in "Dr. Martin Luther's Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken: volständig aus den verschiedenen Ausgaben seiner Werke und Briefe, aus andern Büchern und noch unbenutzten Handschriten gesammelt" by Martin Luther, 1825.

All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

Grace, Scripture, Helping

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

Use, Scripture, Spirit

Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.

Art, Scripture, Philosopher

Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.4

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

Four, Scripture, Theologian

Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

Choices, Scripture, Type

Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

Water, Scripture, Divine

Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.3

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