How do you mark up your Bible?

[GrinningDwarf]

When I first became a Christian I marked mine all up...highlighter, ball point, fineline markers...underlines, notes in the margins, cross-references...

Over the years I have found out that those first things I was taught were not necessarily correct. I've been through a few Bibles since then, and I find myself marking them up less. About the only thing I have underlined now are the Romans Road passages. I do write notes occaisionally on the endpapers. Notes I take while studying usually go on post-it notes stck to the page and are only in there temprorarily. I do most of my writing in notebooks now.

 

[A Brother In Christ]

I have my bible in a zip jacket. Inside the zip jacket is a black pen, a red pen, a yelow hi-lighter, and a ruler. Most of my underlining and notes are with my red pen. If I'm underlining something Jesus said (words in red) I will use the black. The notes that I may write next to the verse (in red) will be in black. I won't use the hi-lighter cause it bleeds through the paper. I keep the hi-lighter in there cause when I'm preparing my Sunday School lessons, I will hi-light the lesson book, or a study book that I'm reading. The ruler will help me underline straight.

2 cor 5:16... interesting

 

[kelco]

I use a combo of underling and colored pencils. Ialso write notes and have an extensive list of references written on the endpapers. I put a small red star by the verses that have cross references and notes on the endpapers.

 

[FollowTheLamb]

I have marked my Bible in different ways over the years:
At one time I heard that Jesus is in every chapter of the Bible, so I began writing out a phrase at the beginning of each chapter on how I saw Christ in it.
I colored messianic passages in purple for prophecies the coming King, first and second comings.
I colored comforting passages and promises in blue.
I used yellow for warning passages and for passages on the coming judgment. I wrote a book on these passages so we can see that Jesus tells us plainly how to get ready for His coming.
I colored all the names, titles and designations for God and Jesus in orange.
I colored the first letter of words that repeated throughout a chapter as a theme word. (In Phil. it would be Joy, Mind, and Gospel. Did you know that Joy is in the epistle 16 times, but God and Jesus are referred to in 60 verses?)
In my margins I would put a large P and the verse numbers of the promise that I found.
Also in my margins I would put "In Him" and the verse numbers of the blessings we have in Christ.

 

[catwoman2]

I just was in a Bible study where I asked my pastor a question about worship. I had been studying the topic in the Bible, esp. in the Psalms, and found out that it was a life of thankful, grateful living in response to what God has done for us. He went off on that it is what God has done for us and I ended up SO CONFUSED that I quit the Bible study. I got rid of the Bible I had been using (with all my notes in) and purchased a regular text Bible, different translation (King James).

So I am not going to mark up my present Bible, so I don't get so blasted confused and write the wrong notes in this time.

So I reverse my opinion on this topic.

PS there was more to the discussion between my pastor and me and why I got so confused but I didn't want to write it here.

From now on, I'm going by what I see in the Bible and not what someone else says!

 

[Willo]

I only read from, preach from, and use one bible. That Bible is marked, I highlight many different verses.

 

[Willo]

You could always try using that special highlighter tape.

Where can you get that?

 

[PolskiKrol]

I use a drylighter- its like a neon crayon.
http://www.mileskimball.com/sdx/200215.jsp

 

[GrinningDwarf]

I use a drylighter- its like a neon crayon.
http://www.mileskimball.com/sdx/200215.jsp

I used to use those!! I liked 'em a lot!

I've become partial to green fine-line ball points over the last few years. All the books I've been studying have green lines and notes in them.

You can easily tell my books apart from my wife's...hers have yellow highlighter. You can tell we've both enjoyed books that have green and yellow in them!!