Ten Things That Will Help You In Your Personal Bible Studies

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Ten Things That Will Help You In Your Personal Bible Studies

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Develop a Regular Reading Habit

Bible study is great, but don't forget to spend some time each day simply reading the Bible. The Christian needs to feel at home in the "Bible environment". By reading it regularly, you'll become familiar with it's vocabulary, it's characters, special memory verses, it's precious promises, valuable lessons, and doctrinal truths. The more familiar you become with God's word the more you'll enjoy it.


Take Your Bible With You

God's word is your spiritual food and your weapon, so why leave home without it?

Pray for Wisdom and Understanding

The Author of the Bible is STILL ALIVE, so He can help you understand it (James 1:5; I John 2:27; I Kings 3:5-12). When is the last time you asked the Lord for understanding?


Keep Your Sins Confessed

Keep yourself clean (I John 1:9) so that God can pour His truth into a clean vessel, a vessel that is fit for the Master's use. God is not particularly interested in teaching His word to someone with a wicked heart (Psa. 66:18; Eze. 14:1-9). I believe it was John Bunyan who said that the Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.


Always Believe What You Read

To question God's word is satanic (Gen. 3:1), so don't ever question it. Just believe it by faith. If you can't understand it, then at least believe it.


Make It A Habit to Mark Your Bible

You aren't growing any younger, so your memory isn't growing any better. Start marking your Bible by underlining or circling special words and verses. Write important notes and references in the margins. A few years from now you'll be very glad you did. Just ask anyone who does it.

What should you mark it with? I've tried these special pens that aren't supposed to bleed through the paper, and I personally do not care for them. I use a fine point, black, ball point pen and dry highlight markers. For special notes, I use other color ball points, but they're all fine point and I never press hard. Never use felt tips or roller balls.


Start Your Own Library

Get a good concordance, such as Strong's or Young's. This will allow you to look up any word in the Bible in all of the places where it is found. If you have a computer, get a good program like QuickVerse, which has a Strong's concordance along with a Bible dictionary, an atlas, and several other options.

Dispensational Truth by Clarence Larkin has been one of the best general study books for several decades. His other works are also very good.



An Old Scofield reference Bible is very helpful (1909 or 1917 edition).

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is a jewel, as it contains thousands of helpful Scripture references. It is also available as an option in QuickVerse software packages.




Thank God for Everything You Learn

We really are unworthy to sit at the feet of our Saviour and learn, yet He commands us to do so. We should count it an honor and privilege! When you learn a new truth, no matter how small, always THANK Him! (I Ths. 5:18; Rom. 1:21).


Apply What You Learn

James 1:22 tells us to DO the word, not just hear it. A sponge that only soaks up water will become sour! Don't be a sour Christian. God teaches us the word because He desires to use us in His service. He feeds us that we might be healthy and strong to fight His battles. Don't be a draft dodger. Apply what you learn as you learn. Get your basic training and then get on the battlefield!
 

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i don't know about that bit about not questioning the bible... can't help it if questions came up! but then God knows our need, He'll get it solved in time, this i'm sure.

thank you for the reminder, Julie, i think the last bit "Apply what you learn" is what it's all about :)
 
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Actually, the NKJV is a better translation than the KJV. When the English scholars translated the hebrew abd greek texts into English, they only had one primary codex from which to do so, so if certain parts of the Bible happened to be missing (e.g. pages fallen out because of age, or unreadable sections of text) they had to go on with only what they had. Modern translations use multiple sources and compare them when they are translating the Bible, giving you a much better word for word translation depending on how literal the version you have. I would recommend the NKJV, the New American Standard Version, or the American Standard Version. I think that these three are the most literal word for word translations of the Bible.
 
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Sorry - a second note - I opt for the more literal translations of the Bible because I can't read Hebrew and Greek - yet! - and I want to know as closely as possible what those original texts mean and say. When you begin to get vague with the translations you lose some of the meaning - it's alread difficult enough to try and translate Hebrew and Greek into English!!!
 
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If I said to you "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

and then "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness was overpowered"

What do you respnd to the best?

All bibles are translated we were having this discussion a while back and the important thing is its the word of god. Be confatable with the bible you have and god will speak though you using it. If you get a bible just because its a 'authorised' bible then it just makes learning more complicated.

It says somewhere in the bible (sorry cant pin point exactly) about not being like the pharasies and using long words and special 'holy' language to make yourself look over important and religeous I beleave this is true to the bible. Speak to god as you would your best freind and let him speak to you in the same way :)
 
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 :D king james authorized this version of the Bible because he wanted it in a form of english that he and his subjects were comfortable with, yet we will insist on subjecting ourselves to his middle-ish english even though we're uncomfortable with it. oh the irony.

ultimately you want want to understand the Word of God - if you accomplish that best with the king james version, then read that... but if you accomplish that with another version (that's recognized) then read that one. i've the new international version.

overall, good advice thu.
 
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ultimately you want want to understand the Word of God - if you accomplish that best with the king james version, then read that... but if you accomplish that with another version (that's recognized) then read that one.

i agree. I don't want to make this into another bible version debate thread, but it's important to understand God's word, and if you can't do that with a KJV bible, go get NIV, or some version with a modern day language.
 
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