KNOWING YOUR BIBLE
July 17, 2022: Dear Friends, Welcome back to KNOWING YOUR BIBLE, a weekly blog that is written to help in learning and knowing the Bible. The information written is not to tell or instruct in interpreting what is read in the Bible, but to help in learning to use and study the Bible. This series on giving instructions in learning the Bible was started on April 24th and will be extended for a few more weeks. Go to the website above left, to review these previous blogs to increase in the knowledge and understanding of the Bible. Consider teaching the Bible to others after developing confidence in “KNOWING YOUR BIBLE”.
In this series, blogs have been written that give instruction on how to learn the names and locations of the Bible books, how to search and find specific Bible verses, how to learn how the Bible books are organized, when the approximate timeline of the books or events that are written about in the books occurred, and how the books of the Bible are related to each other. This last topic on learning how the books are related has been the focus in the last 3-4 blogs. Ways the Bible books can be understood to be related include through geographic sites that transverse through the books and through the same or similar words and ideas that are found throughout the Bible. This last way of describing how the books are related highlights particular words and ideas that God inspired to the Bible writers to reveal what God wanted the Bible’s readers to grasp and follow. In 2nd Timothy, chapter 3, verses 16-17, Paul the apostle wrote the following: “All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.”
A few of many words and/or ideas, will be listed each week for a few weeks with Bible verses assigned to each “Word”. When following that word or idea throughout the books of the Bible, the follower should be able to realize that, even though the events and circumstances found in the many books of the Bible may be different, the specific “Word” being followed has a commonality purpose in being written in a particular verse as part of God’s plan in teaching and guiding those who are reading and studying his “Holy Word”, the Bible. Contemplate on the meaning of each word that is being focused on. The books the verses are listed in may not be in the chronological order of where the books are located in the Bible but will give increased experience in searching and finding Bible verses to read.. All verses are from the New Revised Standard (NRS) Version of the Bible
MAY GOD BLESS YOUR BIBLE STUDY THIS WEEK!
Words found in Bible Verses: LOVE: John, chapter 3, verse 16; Deuteronomy, chapter 6, verses 4-9; 1st Corinthians, chapter 13, verses 1-13; Leviticus, chapter 19, verse 18; 1st John, chapter 4, verses 16-19; Micah, chapter 6, verse 8; John, chapter 13, verse 1 and verses 34-35; Jeremiah, chapter 31, verse 3; Galatians, chapter 2, verse 20; 1st John, chapter 4, verses 7-12;Exodus, chapter 20, verse 6; Matthew, chapter 22, verses 34-40; and Romans, chapter 12, verses 8-10.
RIGHTEOUSNESS: Matthew, chapter 5, verse 6 and 10, and chapter 6, verse 33; and chapter 13, verse 43; Psalm, chapter 5, verse 12, Job, chapter 17 verse 9; James, chapter 5, verse 16; Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 8; Titus, chapter 3, verse 3;Jeremiah, chapter 22, verse 3,1st Timothy, chapter 4, verse 6;1st Samuel, chapter 24, verse 17 and chapter 26, verse 23; Psalm, chapter 5, verse 12, chapter 24, verses 3-6;,and chapter 55, verse 22. Because of space issues,, the study of important and consistent words and ideas in the Bible will be continued next week