How to Study the Bible

Reading feeds the soul; study deepens understanding. Here's a simple, time-tested way to study any passage.

You don't need a seminary degree to study the Bible well. A few honest questions, asked prayerfully, open up almost any passage.

Read slowly. What does the passage actually say? Who is speaking, and to whom?

What comes before and after? What was happening when it was written?

What did it mean to its first readers, and what does it reveal about God?

How does this shape how I live, pray, and love today?

Turn what you've read into a prayer, and ask God to work it into your life.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

2 Timothy 2:15 · King James Version (public domain)