How to Read the Bible

Always pray before opening God's Word:

 

Never should the Bible be studied without prayer.
The Holy Spirit alone can cause us to feel the importance of those things easy to be understood, or prevent us from wresting truths difficult of comprehension. It is the office of heavenly angels to prepare the heart to so comprehend God's word that we shall be charmed with its beauty, admonished by its warnings, or animated and strengthened by its promises. We should make the psalmist's petition our own: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."[1 PS. 119:18.] Temptations often appear
irresistible because through neglect of prayer and the study of the Bible the tempted one cannot readily remember God's promises and meet Satan with the Scripture weapons. But angels are round about those who are willing to be taught in divine things, and in the time of great necessity, they will bring to their remembrance the very truths which are needed. Thus when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
---The Spirit of Prophecy Volume Four, page 418
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ---2 Tim. 2:15

 

"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little" ---Isaiah 28:10

"But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little...." ---Isaiah 28:13

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Your Favorite Quotes on Bible Study

Submitted by Lawrence Barrett--

Isaiah 28:10 For precepts must be upon precept, .. line upon line, ... here a little, and there a little.
1 Corinthians 2:13 But which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
2 Peter 1:20 No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

NOTE: We must lay aside our own ideas and study the Bible by reading everything in the Scriptures on any given subject ("here a little, and there a little") and by comparing all the verses for input. We should let the Bible speak for itself. When this is done, the truth always comes through clearly. This is how Jesus convinced the two disciples on the road to Emmaus that He was indeed the Messiah (Luke 24:27).

1 Corinthians 2:12-14 : King James Version (KJV)

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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
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Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.