Hutterites affirm the full inspiration and authority of Scripture as the Word of God. Their approach to the Bible is practical and obedient: Scripture is to be read, heard, and obeyed. Academic debates about the precise nature of inerrancy are outside the colony's theological culture, which is oriented toward communal piety rather than academic theology.

The posture is one of submission: what God commands in Scripture is to be done. The community of goods and nonresistance are derived from what Hutterites understand as plain Scripture commands, read in their most straightforward sense.