{"id":1383,"date":"2011-08-24T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:36:09","slug":"how-to-study-your-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2011\/08\/24\/how-to-study-your-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Study Your Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1384\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/howtostudy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/howtostudy.jpg 545w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/howtostudy-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/howtostudy-500x238.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Blessed is the man<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"> who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"> nor stands in the way of sinners,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"> nor sits in the seat of scoffers;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"> but his delight is in the law of the Lord,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"> and on his law he meditates day and night.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\">(Psalm 1:1-2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/slash_line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/slash_line.png 525w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/slash_line-300x11.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/slash_line-500x19.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Grace to You<\/em> (John MacArthur) has produced a very helpful resource on how to study the Bible:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The Bible is an awe-inspiring book. However, we don&#8217;t want merely to admire it; we need to understand it. In fact, the majority of people who have an opinion about the Bible&#8211;either positive or negative&#8211;don&#8217;t understand what it says. Such understanding is crucial because the Bible is the Word of God, a fact that becomes especially apparent as you study it. So we need to know how to study the Bible. That encompasses four things: reading it, interpreting it, meditating on it, and teaching it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gty.org\/Resources\/Positions\/P16\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the article, they provide a simple outline to help in your reading and study of God&#8217;s Word. It includes information on how to read the Old and New Testaments, how to interpret the Bible, things to avoid in your studying, how to\u00a0 meditate on God&#8217;s Word, and how to teach it.<\/p>\n<p>Fruitful Bible study is important to the Christian&#8217;s life. Read the article, then go and browse our <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/study\/\">BLB Study Tools <\/a><\/em>page for further resources, all of them free and just a click away. You&#8217;ll find a whole host of helpful charts, outlines, dictionaries, encyclopedias and more. <strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/study\/\">Click here to go<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:1-2) Grace to You (John MacArthur) has produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9413,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/9413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}