KNOWING YOUR BIBLE
January 8, 2023: Dear Friends, Happy 2023 New Year to each of you. May this year be your best yet. If you are following this blog, you are on the right path for increased knowledge and wisdom, and hopefully a life of serenity and peace. That is because, by following this blog, you should gain knowledge and understanding about our Lord God, the Holy One, through learning to use and study the Bible The Bible is God’s Holy Word to its readers. Wisdom, knowledge and understanding of life’s experiences is learned through the reading and the study of the Bible.
The Bible is considered by many to be the most important book ever written where “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. 2nd Timothy, chapter 3, verses 16-17. If he inspired all scripture that is written in the Bible, then one can learn about God by studying God’s written word in the Bible.
We are now in the New Year and are ready to continue our Bible study. This next few blogs will bring to the conclusion a series written before Advent on learning about the important people and events that are written about in the Bible. Go to the blog written August 7, 2022, and begin studying what has been written there. Progress slowly forward, reading and contemplating on what has been written in each blog until you reach the last blog written on November 23, 2022. Note that Old Testament people and events were written about first, then progressing to the New Testament books, read about important people and events written in the New Testament The information provided in these blogs will broaden one’s knowledge about events and people that will help in gaining a better understanding of what God, through his written Word, is trying to teach to its readers. Reading about some important person or event in the Bible may result in applying what is learned to a situation or person that may be occurring in one’s life, resulting in allowing a better understanding of the situation or person.
The last book in the Bible that was discussed in this series was the book of Acts, the history book of the New Testament. The next 13 books in the Bible following the book of Acts, are classified as Paul’s letters. Many think Paul’s letters were written in the 50′s A.D. Each book written is addressed in the first few verses of the 1st chapter to a church or where people who are being written to are located in the area North and West of Isarel, extending into Rome.
Paul’s letters were written in different years during the 50′s AD but are not in chronological order by the date the letters were written. It is thought that First and Second Thessalonians were ones of the earliest books written by Paul. Composing his letters to the different churches and people, Paul wrote and glorified Jesus Christ, how Jesus’ teachings and examples should be followed and obeyed, about faith that believers should have, the importance of the church, the Holy Spirit, just to name a few of the subjects written about. The history of early Christianity and the church can be found throughout the Letters.
Bible verses will be listed below that are written in some of Paul’s Letters. Other verses next week will be listed in the books not listed in this week’s books. All Bible verses are from the New Revised Standard (NRS) version of the Bible.
MAY GOD BLESS YOUR BIBLE STUDY THIS WEEK!
Bible Verses: Romans: Chapter 1, verses 16-25; chapter 5, verses 1-5; chapter 8, verses 9-11; and 15-17; Chapter 10, verse 9; chapter 12, verses 1-8; 1st Corinthians, chapter 1, verses 26-31; chapter 2, verses 9-10; Chapter 10, verses 12-13; chapter 12, verses 4-11; Chapter 13, verses 1-13; chapter 16, verses 13-14. Second Corinthians, chapter 1, verses 21-22; chapter 3, verses 17-18; Chapter 5, verses 16-21. Chapter 6, verses 14-18; Chapter 12, verses 5-10.