Bible Study
The whole of Psalm 91, block by block, in the public-domain World English Bible: who is speaking in each part, what the ancient dangers were, and the one thing the psalm never promises.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Eight verses, one repeated word and a walking pilgrim. Psalm 121 block by block in the World English Bible, with the travel dangers behind each line and what the psalm does not guarantee.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit appears in three Gospels and in one specific scene. Here is the literal text, what Mark 3:30 says the accusation was, and how each Christian tradition defines the sin today.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Read at weddings, written for a fight. All thirteen verses of 1 Corinthians 13 in context, with the fifteen things Paul says love does and the argument the chapter is actually settling.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Fifty-one verses in three movements: the prologue, the testimony of John the Baptist and the first week of disciples. John 1 block by block, in the public-domain World English Bible.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Thirty-nine verses that move from a courtroom verdict to a groaning creation to a list of things that cannot separate you from God. Romans 8 block by block, in the World English Bible.
Ruth Callaway ·
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The chapter begins with a queen mother lecturing a king about wine and the courts, and ends with an acrostic poem about a woman who buys land. Proverbs 31, all 31 verses, in context.
Ruth Callaway ·
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A repeatable method for studying a passage without a teacher: choose the unit, read it whole, observe before interpreting, ask the context questions, cross-check, compare translations, write one sentence.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Size, frequency, what to study first, the four-question structure that keeps a discussion moving, and what to do about the person who talks too much and the person who never does.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Thirty-nine books and twenty-seven, written centuries apart in different languages — what separates them, why the book lists differ between churches, and the four threads that tie them together.
Ruth Callaway ·
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A psalm, a proverb, a law, a letter and an apocalypse make different kinds of claim. What each genre in the Bible is doing, the mistake each one invites, and how to tell them apart on sight.
Ruth Callaway ·
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Two translations of the same verse can differ over the manuscript behind them, an idiom that does not survive, or a choice the receiving language forces. Here is what happens underneath.
Ruth Callaway ·