scrip·ture 
(skrĭpchər)
(skrĭpchər)n.
1.
a. A sacred writing or book.
b. A passage from such a writing or book.
2. often Scripture or Scriptures The writings collected as the Bible.
3. A statement regarded as authoritative.
[Middle English, from Late Latin scrīptūra, from Latin, act of writing, from scrīptus, past participle of scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]