- Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 1:2-26 - Genesis 1:27-31 - Genesis 2 - Genesis 3 - Genesis 4 - Genesis 5 - Genesis 6 - Genesis 7 - Genesis 8 - Genesis 9 - Genesis 10 - Genesis 11 - Genesis 12 - Genesis 13 - Genesis 14 - Genesis 15 - Genesis 16 - Genesis 17 - Genesis 18 - Genesis 19 - Genesis 20 - Genesis 21 - Genesis 22 - Genesis 28 - Genesis 30 - Genesis 32 - Genesis 33 - Genesis 34 - Genesis 41 - Genesis 46 -
- Exodus 1 - Exodus 2 - Exodus 3 - Exodus 4 - Exodus 5 - Exodus 6 - Exodus 7 - Exodus 17 - Exodus 32 - Exodus 33 - Exodus 39 -
- exodux 8 - exodus 9 - exodus 10 - exodus 13 - exodus 14 - exodus 15 - exodus 16 - exodus 18 - exodus 20 - exodus 21 - Exodus 25 - exodus 30
Exodus is the book of redemption. Its first word, now, links it onto Genesis. Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy all begin with conjunctions also, making the Pentateuch one single book. Exodus begins with the expression "Now these are the names," for redemption has to do with names--names written by grace into the book of God. The word exodus comes from the Greek and mean "the way out."
- Leviticus 1 - Leviticus 2 - Leviticus 5 - Leviticus 9 - Leviticus 10 - Leviticus 11 - Leviticus 13 - Leviticus 14 - Leviticus 16 - Leviticus 18 - Leviticus 19 - Leviticus 22 - Leviticus 23 - Leviticus 25 - Leviticus 26 -
- Numbers 1 - Numbers 3 - Numbers 14 - Numbers 18 - Numbers 20 - Numbers 21 - Numbers 22 - Numbers 23 - Numbers 33 -
- Deuteronomy 1 - Deuteronomy 2 - Deuteronomy 3 - Deuteronomy 4 - Deuteronomy 5 - Deuteronomy 6 - Deuteronomy 7 - Deuteronomy 8 - Deuteronomy 9 - Deuteronomy 10 - Deuteronomy 11 - Deuteronomy 12 - Deuteronomy 13 - Deuteronomy 14 - Deuteronomy 15 - Deuteronomy 16 - Deuteronomy 17 - Deuteronomy 18 - Deuteronomy 19 - Deuteronomy 20 - Deuteronomy 21 - Deuteronomy 22 - Deuteronomy 23 - Deuteronomy 24 - Deuteronomy 25 - Deuteronomy 26 - Deuteronomy 27 - Deuteronomy 28 - Deuteronomy 29 - Deuteronomy 30 - Deuteronomy 31 - Deuteronomy 32 - Deuteronomy 33 -
The name Deuteronomy means “second law.” It was the second giving of the Mosaic Law, the first being at Mount Sinai. Moses felt compelled to bring this reminder of the Law to Israel, because those ready to enter the Promised Land were only children – if born at all – when the Law was originally given at Mount Sinai
- Joshua 1 - Joshua 2 - Joshua 5 - Joshua 6 - Joshua 7 - Joshua 10 - Joshua 15 - Joshua 23 - Joshua 24 -
The book of Judges, which is believed to have been written by the prophet Samuel around 1050 – 1000 BC, presents us with a sad and turbulent period in Israel’s history. Contrasted greatly with the victorious book of Joshua that precedes it, Judges shows the failure of Israel to conquer their enemies, claim their inheritance, and the huge effect that this had on their life and relationship with God. Throughout this entire book, we see a repeated cycle, one that we will call ‘The cycle of sin’
- I Samuel 1 - I Samuel 2 - I Samuel 7 - I Samuel 12 - I Samuel 15 - I Samuel 16 - I Samuel 17 - I Samuel 21 - I Samuel 30 -
- II Samuel 1 - II Samuel 2 - II Samuel 3 - II Samuel 4 - II Samuel 5 - Ii Samuel 6 - II Samuel 7 - II Samuel 8 - II Samuel 9 - II Samuel 10 - II Samuel 11 - II Samuel 12 - II Samuel 13 - II Samuel 14 - II Samuel 15 - II Samuel 16 - II Samuel 17 - II Samuel 18 - II Samuel 19 - II Samuel 20 - II Samuel 21 - II Samuel 22 - II Samuel 23 - II Samuel 24 -
- i kings 3 - i kings 8 - i kings 11 - I Kings 17 - i kings 18 - i kings 20 - i kings 22 - i kings 23 -
- Ruth -
- Ezra -
- I Chronicles 1 - I Chronicles 2 - I Chronicles 3 - I Chronicles 4 - I Chronicles 5 - I Chronicles 6 - I Chronicles 7 - I Chronicles 8 - I Chronicles 9 - I Chronicles 10 - I Chronicles 16 - I Chronicles 28 -
- II Chronicles I - II CHRONICLES 2 - ii chronicles 7 - II chronicles 16 - II chronicles 26 - ii chronicles 32 - ii chronicles 36 -
- Nehemiah -
Nehemyah, "Comfort of Yahweh." The book has been established to have come from the personal memoirs
of Nehemiah.
of Nehemiah.
Esther is the seventeenth book of the Bible and the last in order of the historical works. It is a narrative that has been called a historical novel. The book was evidently prepared for reading in Jewish homes suring the celebration of Purim, and it attained great popularity among the Jews. It is named for its principal character, a Jewish woman who became the queen of Xerxes, king of Persia,, and whose name was thereupon changed from the Hebrew Halassah to the Persian Esther.
- Job - Job 1 - Job 2 - Job 5 - Job 6 - Job 7 - Job 8 - Job 11 - Job 13 - Job 16 - Job 17 - Job 19 - Job 23 - Job 24 - Job 28 - Job 34 - Job 42 -
- Psalm 1 - Psalm 2 - Psalm 3 - Psalm 4 - Psalm 5 - Psalm 6 - Psalm 7 - Psalm 8 - Psalm 9 - Psalm 10 - Psalm 11 - Psalm 12 - Psalm 13 - Psalm 14 - Psalm 14:1 - Psalm 15 - Psalm 16 - Psalm 17 - Psalm 18 - Psalm 19 - Psalm 20 - Psalm 23 - Psalm 24 - Psalm 25 - Psalm 26 - Psalm 27 - Psalm 28 - Psalm 29 - Psalm 30 - Psalm 31 - Psalm 32 - Psalm 33 - Psalm 34 - Psalm 35 - Psalm 36 - Psalm 37 - Psalm 38 - Psalm 39 - Psalm 40 - Psalm 41 - Psalm 42 - Psalm 43 -
- psalm 46 - psalm 51 - Psalm 51:10-13 - psalm 55 - psalm 56 - psalm 57 - psalm 58 - psalm 59 - psALM 60 - psalm 61 - psalm 62 - psalm 66 - psalm 72 - psalm 73 - psalm 76 - psalm 78 - psalm 81 - psalm 84 - psalm 86 - psalm 88 - Psalm 89 - psalm 90 - psalm 91 - psalm 92 - psalm 95 - psalm 97 - psalm 103 - psalm 105 - psalm 107 - psalm 110 - psalm 115 - psalm 116 - psalm 118 - psalm 119 - psalm 121 - psalm 122 - psalm 126 - psalm 127 - psalm 129 - psalm 130 - psalm 131 - psalm 138 - Psalm 141 - psalm 147 - psalm 150 -
- Proverbs 1 - Proverbs 1:7 - Proverbs 2 - Proverbs 3 - Proverbs 3:5-6 - Proverbs 4 - Proverbs 5 - Proverbs 6 - Proverbs 7 - Proverbs 8 - Proverbs 9 - Proverbs 9:10-12 - Proverbs 10 - Proverbs 11 - Proverbs 12 -
- proverbs 13 - proverbs 14 - proverbs 15 - proverbs 16 - proverbs 17 - proverbs 18 - proverbs 19 - Proverbs 20 - proverbs 21 - Proverbs 22 - proverbs 23 - Proverbs 24 - proverbs 25 - proverbs 26 - proverbs 28 - proverbs 29 - proverbs 30 - proverbs 31 -
"The Proverbs", the opening noun gives the book its name in the Hebrew Bible as in ours. The Hebrew term basically means 'a comparison' (e.g., the sharp simile such as --at random--11:23, 12:4; or the full grown allegory of Ezek 17:2 or Judges 9:8), but it came to stand for any kind of sage pronouncement from a maxim or observation to a sermon, and from a wisecrack (Ez 18:2) to a doctrinal revelation.
- Ecclesiastes -
The Book of Ecclesiastes, written by inspiration of God, contains many of mankind's most serious reflections. These are not necessarily God's truth, but they stimulate the minds and hearts of men by forcing them to confront the hopelessness which is the logical result of facing life without God.
- Song of Songs -
The Song of Songs (Hebrew, שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—one of the five megillot (scrolls)—found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim (or “writings”). It is also known as the Song of Solomon, Solomon’s Song of Songs, or as Canticles, the latter from the shortened and anglicized Vulgate title Canticum Canticorum (Latin, “Song of Songs”). It is known as Āisma in the Septuagint, which is short for Āisma āismatōn (Greek, ᾎσμα ᾀσμάτων, “Song of Songs”).
- Isaiah 1 - Isaiah 2 - Isaiah 3 - Isaiah 4 - Isaiah 5 - Isaiah 6 - Isaiah 7 - Isaiah 8 - Isaiah 9 - Isaiah 10 - Isaiah 11 -Isaiah 12 - Isaiah 13 - Isaiah 14 - Isaiah 15 - Isaiah 16 - Isaiah 17 - Isaiah 18 - Isaiah 19 - Isaiah 20 - Isaiah 21 - Isaiah 22 - Isaiah 23 - Isaiah 24 - Isaiah 25 - Isaiah 26 - Isaiah 27 - Isaiah 28 -Isaiah 29 - Isaiah 30 - Isaiah 31 - Isaiah 32 - Isaiah 33 - Isaiah 35 - Isaiah 36 - Isaiah 37 - Isaiah 38 - Isaiah 39 - Isaiah 40 - Isaiah 41 - Isaiah 42 - Isaiah 43 - Isaiah 44 - Isaiah 45 - Isaiah 46 - Isaiah 47 - Isaiah 48 - Isaiah 53 - Isaiah 54 - Isaiah 55 - Isaiah 56 - Isaiah 58 - Isaiah 59 - Isaiah 60 - Isaiah 61 - Isaiah 62 - Isaiah 63 - Isaiah 64 - Isaiah 65 - Isaiah 66 - Isaiah 67 - Isaiah 68 -
The Prophet Isaiah was born in 760 BC and is further identified as the son of Amoz (1:1). His name in Hebrew (Yeshayahu) means “Yah[weh] is Salvation.” And he lived this name well, insisting that Judah’s Kings and people trust only in God, make no alliances with foreign nations, and refuse to fear anyone but God.
Isaiah 66 chapters while the Bible has the same number of books. The Old Testament has 39 books and the first 39 chapters of Isaiah are all about the Old Testament. The New Testament has 27 books and the last 27 chapters of Isaiah are his prophecies of the Messiah.
Isaiah 66 chapters while the Bible has the same number of books. The Old Testament has 39 books and the first 39 chapters of Isaiah are all about the Old Testament. The New Testament has 27 books and the last 27 chapters of Isaiah are his prophecies of the Messiah.
- jeremiah 2 - Jeremiah 4 - Jeremiah 5 - Jeremiah 6 - jeremiah 7 - jeremiah 10 - jeremiah 13 - jeremiah 17 - jeremiah 18 - jeremiah 23 - jeremiah 29 - jeremiah 30 - jeremiah 31 - Jeremiah 32 - jeremiah 33 -
- ezekiel 8 - ezekiel 16 - ezekiel 18 - ezekiel 22 - ezekiel 28 - ezekiel 33 - ezekiel 34 - ezekiel 36 - ezekiel 37 - ezekiel 38 -
- Daniel 1 - Daniel 2 - Daniel 3 - Daniel 4 - Daniel 5 - Daniel 6 - Daniel 7 - Daniel 8 - Daniel 9 - Daniel 10 - Daniel 11 - Daniel 12 -
- Joel -
The work of Amos is generally placed at about 760 BC. He served at the time of two distinguished king. Jeroboam II ruled in Israel, the Northern Kingdom, for forty-one years. His was a long reign, characterized by conquest, expansion, and material prosperity. In Judah (the Southern Kingdom) Uzziah had a prosperous reign of fifty-two years. Amos came on the scene about the time these two rulers died.
- obadiah -
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom— We have heard a message from the LORD : An envoy was sent to the nations to say, "Rise, and let us go against her for battle"- The Hebrew name Obadiah means "Worshiper of Yahweh" or "Servant of Yahweh."
- Jonah -
- Nahum -
The name “Nahum“ means comfort or consolation. His book is a message of destruction for Nineveh, and that would have been a message of consolation for the nations she had oppressed. The only thing we know about Nahum is found in 1:1 which says he was from Elkosh. But we don't know where that was because it is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible. It is difficult to determine a specific date for Nahum's ministry, but we can assume that it was written before 612 BC because that is when Nineveh was destroyed and since Nahum is predicting the destruction of Nineveh that would be a safe assumption.
- habakkuk -
- zephaniah -
The name Zephaniah (Hebrew — Tsephan-yah) means “Yahweh hides” or “Yahweh has hidden.” “Zephaniah was evidently born during the latter part of King Manasseh’s reign (695 – 642 BC). His name may mean that he was ‘hidden’ from Manasseh’s atrocities” (Expanded Open Bible). See II Kings 21:1-18 and II Chronicles 33:1-20 for the nature of this king’s reign.
- Haggai -
Haggai's name is mentioned nine times in the book. The authorship is virtually uncontested. There are two references to Haggai in Ezra where he is sen working alongside younger prophet Zechariah.
- zechariah -
The prophecy of Zacharias is one of the books admitted by both Jews and Christians into their canon of Sacred Writings, one of the Minor Prophets.
- malachi 1 - malachi 2 - malachi 3 - malachi 4 -
- Matthew 1 - matthew 2 - Matthew 4 - matthew 5 - matthew 5:3-12 - matthew 5:43-45 - Matthew 6 - matthew 6:25-34 - matthew 8:25-34 -Matthew 7 - matthew 9 -matthew 10 - matthew 11 - matthew 11:12-15 - Matthew 12 - matthew 13 - matthew 14 - matthew 15 - matthew 16 - matthew 17 - matthew 18 - matthew 19 - matthew 20 - matthew 21 - matthew 22 - matthew 23 - matthew 24 - matthew 25 - Matthew 26 - matthew 27 - matthew 28 -
- mark 1 - mark 2 - mark 3 - Mark 4 - mark 6 - mark 7 - Mark 8 - mark 9 - Mark 10 - Mark 11 - mark 12 - mark 13 - mark 14 - mark 15 -
- luke 1 - luke 2 - luke 3 -luke 4 - luke 5 - luke 7 - Luke 9 - luke 10 - luke 11 - Luke 14 - luke 16 - luke 19 - luke 22 - luke 23 - luke 24 - luke 29 -
Luke is one of the three “Synoptic Gospels,” which means that it covers much of the same territory as those of St. Matthew and St. Mark. As a result, if Luke’s Gospel had not been written, there would still be a great deal of the Jesus story that would have been preserved (not only by Matthew and Mark but also by John). However, there are certain things that only Luke records.
- John 1 - John 2 - John 3 - John 4 - John 5 - John 6 - John 7 - John 8 - John 9 - John 10 - John 11 - John 11:3 - John 12 - John 13 - John 14 - John 15 - John 16 - John 17 - John 18 - John 19 - John 20 -
- John 8 - john 9 - John 10 - john 11 - John 11:3 - john 13 - john 14 - john 15 - John 16 - john 17 -
- ACTS 1 - ACTS 2 - ACTS 3 - ACTS 4 - ACTS 5 - ACTS 6 - ACTS 7 - ACTS 8 -ACTS 9 - ACTS 10 - ACTS 11 - ACTS 12 - ACTS 13 - ACTS 14 - ACTS 15 - ACTS 16 - ACTS 17 - ACTS 18 - ACTS 19 - ACTS 20 - ACTS 21 - ACTS 22 - ACTS 23 - ACTS 24 - ACTS 25 - ACTS 26 - ACTS 27 - ACTS 28 -
In a sense, the lesson of the book of Acts is that the life of Jesus goes on in his church. It is commonly held that the writer was Luke and Acts continues where the gospel of Luke left off. The main purpose of Acts is sufficiently indicated in the preface to the gospel of which Acts is confessedly a continuation (The title ‘ Acts of the Apostles’ was almost certainly prefixed later, when Acts often circulated separately from the gospel).
- Romans 1 - Romans 2 - Romans 3 - Romans 4 - Romans 5 - Romans 6 - Romans 6:23 - Romans 7 - Romans 8 - Romans 8:26-30 - Romans 9 - Romans 10 - Romans 11 - Romans 12 - Romans 12:1-2 - Romans 13 - Romans 13:1-7 - Romans 14 - Romans 15 - Romans 16 -
Paul’s Letter to the Romans is a pastoral tour de force. It is of course richly theological. Nowhere does Paul more deeply and beautifully open up to us the gospel of God’s saving grace in Christ. But Paul’s theology of grace is not an abstract exposition of doctrine. He is concerned to explain to the church in Rome the gospel he preached and to establish them in that gospel. The apostle’s doctrine always has a pastoral edge to it. True theology is for living , it is never a brute chunk of fact.
- i corinthians 1 - i corinthians 2 - i corinthians 3 -i corinthians 4 - i corinthians 5 - i corinthians 6 - i corinthians 7 - i corinthians 8 - i corinthians 9 - I Corinthians 10 - I Corinthians 11 - i corinthians 12 - Icorinthians 12:10-11 - i corinthians 13 - i corinthians 14 - i corinthians 15 - i corinthians 16 -
The purpose of the letter is to address the issues and provide solutions to a group of new believers who are divided in their interpretation of the Scriptures and are still battling with internal divisions caused by their own Pagan religion. This is in stark contrast to other Epistles such as Romans and Timothy that were written to an audience of more mature believers
- ii corinthians 1 - ii corinthians 2 - ii corinthians 3 - ii corinthians 4 - ii corinthians 5 - ii corinthians 6 - ii corinthians 7 - ii corinthians 8 - ii corinthians 9 - II Corinthians 10 - ii corinthians 10:3-5 - ii corinthians 11 - II Corinthians 12 - ii corinthians 13 -
- galatians 1 - galatians 2 - galatians 3 - galatians 4 - galatians 5 - galatians 6 -
- ephesians 1 - ephesians 2 - ephesians 3 - ephesians 4 - ephesians 5 - Ephesians 6 - ephesians 6:10-13 -
- Philippians 1 - philippians 2 - philippians 3 - philippians 4 -
- Colossians 1 - Colossians 2 - Colossians 3 - colossians 4
Colossians was written as a warning against certain false teachers, about whom St. Paul had probably heard from Epaphras, his fellow-prisoner" and the founder of the Church of the Colossians. Paul denounces ascetic practices or avoiding certain foods because Christ's death put an end to such distinctions. Believers are one in Christ, not divided between circumcised and uncircumcised, slave and free, and so on
- i thessalonians 1 - i thessalonians 2 - I Thessalonians 5 -
The first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians is also the first letter the apostle wrote. It was written to a struggling, yet vigorous church that was only a few months old, made up of Christians who had just come to Christ under Paul's ministry.
- i thessalonians 1 - II Thessalonians 2 - ii thessalonians 3 -
- i timothy 1 - i timothy 2 - I timothy 3 - i timothy 4 - i timothy 6 -
- titus 1 - titus 2 - titus 3 - titus 3:5-8 -
Titus is one of the three epistles known collectively as the pastorals (1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus).
- Philemon -
- Hebrews 1 - hebrews 2 - hebrews 3 - hebrews 4 - hebrews 5 - hebrews 6 - hebrews 7 - hebrews 9 - Hebrews 10 - Hebrews 11:1 - hebrews 11 - hebrews 12 - Hebrews 12:14-17 - hebrews 13 -
- james 1 - James 2 - james 3 - James 4 - james 5 - james 8 -
The five chapters of James lays the groundwork for what a Christian life looks like: In our confidence in standing up for Christ (chapter 1), compassionate service (chapter 2), careful speech (chapter 3), contrite submission (chapter 4), and concerning sharing (chapter 5). Faith is more than hearing or speaking God’s Word, it’s becoming doers of His commandments.
- i peter 1 - i peter 2 - i peter 3 - I peter 4 - i peter 5 -
- i john 1 - I John 2 - i john 3 - i john 4 - i john 5 -
Written by John the Evangelist, 1 John is all about love. John helps those who read the Holy Bible to discover what love is.
The word "love" is used interchangeably with the words "light" and "word." He uses these words to help both believers and non-believers understand what love looks and feels like, and how it acts and sounds.
The word "love" is used interchangeably with the words "light" and "word." He uses these words to help both believers and non-believers understand what love looks and feels like, and how it acts and sounds.
- ii john -
The elder — An appellation suited to a familiar letter, but upon a weighty subject.
To the elect — That is, Christian. Kuria is undoubtedly a proper name, both here and in 2 John 1:5; for it was not then usual to apply the title of lady to any but the Roman empress; neither would such a manner of speaking have been suitable to the simplicity and dignity of the apostle.
Whom — Both her and her children.
I love in the truth — With unfeigned and holy love. --John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
To the elect — That is, Christian. Kuria is undoubtedly a proper name, both here and in 2 John 1:5; for it was not then usual to apply the title of lady to any but the Roman empress; neither would such a manner of speaking have been suitable to the simplicity and dignity of the apostle.
Whom — Both her and her children.
I love in the truth — With unfeigned and holy love. --John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
