BSN: Bible Studies

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For longer word studies, use an exhaustive concordance. The studies below are for beginners. Studying the Bible’s words lets the Bible interpret itself.

Related words can be antonyms as well as synonyms, and the relation may only be tangential.

RECENT

(reverse chronological order)

  • agnosticism Luke 20:1-8 “So they answered that they did not know”; Ex 32:1, 23 “we do not know what has become of him”
  • GETHSEMANE Matt 26; Mark 14; Luke 22 (Is John 12:27 an allusion to it?)
  • SPIRIT V FLESH Jn 3:6; 6:63; Rom 8:1-8
  • God loves us John 3:16; 2 Cor 13:14; Eph 2:4; 1 Jn 4:9-11, 19
  • SINCERITY 1 Cor 5:6-8; 2 Cor 1:12; 1 Tim 1:5; 2 Tim 1:5
  • DARKNESS
    • DARKNESS v LIGHT 1 Pet 2:9-10; Acts 26:18; 1 John 1:5; John 8:12; Gen 1:4; John 1:4-9)
    • OUTER DARKNESS Matt 8:12; 22:13; 25:30 (2 Thess 1:9-10)
  • THIS HOPE Acts 26:7; Heb 6:19; 1 John 3:3
  • SHEPHERD John 10; Gen 49:24; Ps 23
  • STONE Gen 49:24; 1 Sam 17:49-50
PERMANENT COLLECTION

(alphabetical order)

  • ANGELS: The Messianic Project reversed the order of angels and humans 1 Cor 6:3; Heb 2:5-9; 2 Pet 2:10-11; Ps 8:5-6
  • ANXIETY – Phil 4:6; 1 Pet 5:6-7; Prov 12:25 (Related words: FRET, WORRY)
  • AUTHORITY Matt 8:5-13; Luke 7:1-10; Matt 28:18; Rev 12:10; Rev 30:30
  • CONFIDENCE – Eph 3:12; Heb 10:19, 35; Ps 27:3
  • COVENANT – Luke 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25; Jer 31:31-34 (Related word: JOIN)
  • DISCIPLE – Mark 2:18; John 8:30-32; 9:27-29 (Related word: TEACHER)
  • EQUIP Eph 4:12; Heb 13:21
  • FAITH
    • UNBELIEVING Heb 3:12, 19; Rev 21:8. Also, compare Matt 24:51 to Luke 12:46, considering also Heb 11:29.
    • FAITH is a matter of obedience John 3:36; Acts 6:7; Rom 16:25-27; 2 Thess 1:8; 1 Pet 4:17 (see also Rom 2:8; 2 Cor 9:13)
  • Forgetting Jesus (foreshadowings of a bad human tendency) – Gen 40:23; Ex 1:8; Eccl 9:14-15
  • FRET – Ps 37: 1, 7, 8; Prov 24:19 (Related words: ANXIETY, WORRY)
  • HATE (see under LOVE)
  • HEAR – John 8:47; Rom 10:17; Deut 6:4; Eccl 9:17 (Related word: LISTEN)
  • HEART – Matt 23:25-26; Rom 10:10; 2 Cor 10:5
    • PURITY OF HEART – Matt 5:8; Jas 4:8; Ps 73:1, 13
    • Contents of the HEART (e.g. KNOWLEDGE, MIND, THINK, THOUGHT)
  • HONOR – John 5:22-23; Rom 1:21; 1 Sam 2:29-30; Mal 2:2 (Related word: SHAME)
  • JOIN – Matt 12:30; 19:6; Mk 10:9; Lk 11:23; 1 Cor 6:15-17 (Related words: COVENANT)
  • KINGDOM OF GOD: Lists of things disallowed in the kingdom of God 1 Cor 6:9-10; Gal 5:19-21; Eph 5:5; Rev 21:8, 25-27; 22:15
  • LIFE – John 11:25-26; 14:6; Acts 5:20; Rom 7:21-8:8; Phil 1:21; Col 3:4; Jer 38:16
    • How to live this life: Luke 9:24; 2 Cor 5:14-15; Gal 2:20; Phil 1:21; 1 Pet 2:24; 4:2; 1 John 2:17; 4:9 (Notice how each of these verses serves as a paraphrase of the others – Jesus’ teaching being the idea that led to all the other expressions of it.) Consider also John 3:30; Rom 6:13, 19; Col 3:4; 2 Tim 2:11; 1 Pet 1:14-16. Consider also framing the issue as a question: “How do we live this life?”
    • Dying with Christ: Rom 6:8; Gal 2:20; Phil 3:10-11
  • LISTEN – Luke 10:39; 21:38; 1 Sam 3:9-10; Ps 81:13-14; Prov 1:33; Eccl 5:1 (Related word: HEAR)
  • LOVE – 2 Cor 5:14-15; 1 John 4:8, 16, 18-19
    • LOVE THE LORD – 1 Cor 16:22; Eph 6:24
    • LOVE PEOPLE – Luke 6:35; John 13:34-35; 15:17; Rom 13:8-10; Jas 2:8-13
    • LOVE THE LORD AND PEOPLE – Matt 22:34-40; 1 John 4:21
    • Hate Ps 45:7; 97:10; Heb 1:9 (The godly do have occasion to hate.)
  • MAMMON: God or mammon Matt 6:24; Luke 16:9, 11, 13 (“Mammon” is an Aramaic word consistently translated as “wealth” in the NASB 1995.)
  • NAME – John 1:12-13; Acts 4:12; Phil 2:9-11; 3 John 1:7; Zeph 3:12
    • AS HIS NAME IS – 1 Sam 25:25; Rev 3:1
    • BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD – Mt 23:39; Lk 13:35; Ps 118:26; Mt 21:9; Lk 19:38
    • CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD – Acts 2:21; Gen 4:26; Joel 2:32
    • HALLOWED BE HIS NAME – Matt 6:9; Luke 11:2
    • MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF – 2 Sam 7:23; 8:13; Neh 9:10; Jer 3:20; Dan 9:15
    • NOT TAKING THE LORD’S NAME IN VAIN – Ex 20:7; Deut 5:11
    • PRESERVING A NAME – Gen 38:6-8; Deut 25:7; 2 Sam 18:18
  • PEACE Is 9:6-7; Jer 28:9; John 16:33; Eph 2:14-16
    • no peace for the wicked Is 48:22; 57:21
  • Pleasing Him John 8:29; Rom 8:6-8; 2 Cor 4:1-2; 8:21; Gal 1:10; Eph 5:10; 6:6; Heb 11:6
  • PROMISES: What does a promise from God look like? Rom 9:9; 2 Cor 6:16-7:1; Gal 3:16-19; Eph 6:2-3
  • Psalm 110:1 is quoted in whole or in part over 20 times in the New Testament: Ps 110:1 quoted in whole or in part in the New Testament: Mt 22:44; 26:64; Mk 12:36; 14:62; 16:19; Lk 20:42-43; 22:69; Acts 2:33; 2:34-35; 5:31; 7:55, 56; Rom 8:34; 1 Cor 15:25; Eph 1:20; Col 3:1; Heb 1:3, 13; 8:1; 10:12-13; 12:2; 1 Pet 3:22 (No Old Testament verse is referenced more often in the New Testament than this one.)
    • Psalm 110:4 is quoted in whole or part in Hebrews: Heb 5:6, 10; 6:20; 7:1, 10, 11, 15, 17, 21 (This list may not be exhaustive, but the only other place Melchizedek is mentioned by name is Gen 14.)
  • Quietness: Ps 131:2; Eccl 9:17; Is 30:15 (Quietness is our prelude to hearing the voice of the Lord in our hearts.)
  • SHAME – Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Rom 1:16; 2 Tim 1:8, 16 (Related word: HONOR)
  • SOWER: What the sower was sowing: “the word of the kingdom” (Matt 13:19); “the word” (Mark 4:14); “the word of God” (Luke 8:11)
  • TEACHING (n) Matt 7:28-29; John 7:16-17; Acts 2:42; 5:28; 13:12; 17:19; Rom 6:17; 16:17; 1 Tim 4:16; 2 Tim 4:15; Tit 1:9; Heb 6:1; 2 John 1:9-11
    • TEACHER (n) Matt 7:28-29; John 13:13 (Related words: DISCIPLE)
    • DOCTRINE (n) 1 Tim 6:3; Tit 1:9; 2:1, 7, 10
  • TRUTH – John 8:30-32, 40; 14:6; 18:37-38; Eph 4:21; Col 1:5; 2 Tim 2:15; Jas 1:18; 3 John 1:4; Ps 117:2
  • “Whatever he says to you, do it” – John 2:5; Gen 41:55; 1 Sam 20:4 (see also the similar pattern in Matt 21:6 and Ruth 3:5
  • WISDOM – Jas 1:5-8; 3:13-18; 2 Pet 3:14-16
  • WITNESSES: the apostles as witnesses of Christ Luke 21:13; John 15:27; 18:21; 20:30-31; Acts 1:8, 21-22, 32
  • WORRY – Matt 6:24-34; 10:19; 13:22; Luke 21:34 (Related words: ANXIETY, FRET)
  • YOKE – Matt 11:29-30; Acts 15:10; Gal 5:1; 1 Tim 6:1; 1 Kings 12:1-19; 2 Chron 10:1-19

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