Featured studies · 366 live, 21 in preparation
Doctrines
366 featured studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest, listed by the part of the canon each one stands in.
What these studies ask
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
The parts of the canon
- Torah133 live
- History22 live
- Wisdom and Poetry9 live
- Prophets31 live, 2 in preparation
- Gospels71 live, 1 in preparation
- Acts and the Letters83 live, 18 in preparation
- Revelation17 live
The doctrines on the index of every featured study, 366 studies
Torah
133 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham's Intercession for Sodom | Genesis 18:16 to 33 tells how Abraham pleaded for Sodom before its judgment, and how the LORD answered. | Genesis | 13 linked studies |
| Afterlife Vocabulary | Genesis 37:35 names Sheol first, and the New Testament adds Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus, the Abyss and Paradise. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| Angelology | Scripture names cherubim, seraphim, the living creatures, an archangel and the armies of angels, and it gives each class its own office. | Genesis | 18 linked studies |
| Brit milah: circumcision on the eighth day | Genesis 17:12 sets circumcision on the eighth day, and Scripture records the day for Isaac, John the Baptist, Jesus and Paul. | Genesis | 10 linked studies |
| Clean and Unclean | What Leviticus and Deuteronomy teach about food, bodily states and their cleansing, and how Mark 7, Acts 10 and Romans 14 read that teaching. | Genesis | 31 linked studies |
| Dreams in Scripture and in Egypt | The dreams of Joseph, the cupbearer, the baker and Pharaoh, set beside the dreams of Daniel 2 and 4, the Egyptian dream book and the test the law gives a dreamer. | Genesis | 9 linked studies |
| Ephraim and Manasseh, the two tribes of Joseph | Joseph's two sons, born in Egypt, whom Jacob counted as his own and who became two tribes of Israel. | Genesis | 13 linked studies |
| God and the Nations, from Abraham to the New Jerusalem | The nations in Scripture, from the Table of Nations and the promise to Abram to the multitude before the throne and the city of Revelation 21. | Genesis | 11 linked studies |
| God Dwelling with His People, from Eden to the New Jerusalem | The presence of God with His people in Scripture, with its verses, its Hebrew and Greek words, and the readings of Eden and of Ezekiel 37. | Genesis | 15 linked studies |
| Joseph and the Tale of Two Brothers | Genesis 39 set beside the story of Anpu and Bata, copied on an Egyptian papyrus of the Nineteenth Dynasty. | Genesis | 11 linked studies |
| Levirate Marriage | A custom of family and inheritance told in Genesis 38, written into the law at Deuteronomy 25 and carried out in the book of Ruth. | Genesis | 10 linked studies |
| Marriage and the Household | Genesis 2:24 makes a man and his wife one flesh, and Jesus and Paul both quote the verse. | Genesis | 22 linked studies |
| Messianic Prophecy | The MannaFest prophecy catalog holds 286 entries in six sections and twelve categories, from the birth of the Messiah to the nations turning to God. | Genesis | 34 linked studies |
| Mourning and Burial in Israel | How Israel grieved its dead and laid them in the grave, from Abraham's purchase of a family tomb to the law of the priests and the hope of the resurrection. | Genesis | 15 linked studies |
| Names of God | Scripture names God as Elohim in its first verse, as El Shaddai to the patriarchs and as YHWH to Moses, and the New Testament carries the names to Jesus. | Genesis | 16 linked studies |
| Providence | Genesis 45 and 50 give Joseph's account of how God ruled over the wrong his brothers did him. | Genesis | 14 linked studies |
| Satan | Scripture names the adversary of God's people in both Testaments, and the New Testament reads the cross as his defeat. | Genesis | 25 linked studies |
| Satan Across the Testaments | Scripture shows the adversary first as an officer of the heavenly court and later by his proper name, from Job's courtroom to Revelation's dragon. | Genesis | 22 linked studies |
| The Abrahamic Covenant | God binds Himself by oath to Abraham, land, seed, and blessing to all nations, sealed in a faith counted for righteousness. | Genesis | 45 linked studies |
| The Angel of YHWH | The angel of the LORD appears from Genesis 16 to Zechariah 3, and five readings of who he is run from Justin Martyr in the second century to scholars of the twentieth. | Genesis | 28 linked studies |
| The Birthright | The right of the firstborn in Genesis, the blessing told apart from it, and the warning Hebrews draws from Esau. | Genesis | 14 linked studies |
| The Blood | Leviticus 17:11's ruling traced through the doorposts, Sinai, the Day of Atonement, the cup of the new covenant, and the blood of the Lamb in Revelation. | Genesis | 37 linked studies |
| The Body and Sexual Ethics in Scripture | What Scripture teaches about the body and sexual conduct, from the creation of man and woman in Genesis to the letters of Paul. | Genesis | 16 linked studies |
| The Burnt Offering | This doctrine study sets out the rite of Leviticus 1, the voices of the church and the questions readers dispute. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| The Calendar of the Flood | The months of the flood in Genesis 7 and 8, worked through the dates, the counts of days and the readings of Rashi, Josephus and Jubilees. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| The Call of Abraham | The LORD's call of Abram, which Joshua, Nehemiah, Stephen, Paul and the letter to the Hebrews each recall. | Genesis | 25 linked studies |
| The Covenant of the Pieces | Genesis 15 tells of one vision and one night in which the LORD promised Abram an heir and swore the land to his offspring. | Genesis | 20 linked studies |
| The Covenants | Each covenant has its sign, from the bow in the cloud to the cup of the Last Supper. | Genesis | 32 linked studies |
| The Edenic Covenant | The charge runs from Genesis 1:26 to 2:17, and Hosea 6:7, Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 return to it. | Genesis | 11 linked studies |
| The Fall & the Protoevangelium | One command, one transgression, and the whole creation fractures, yet before the sentence is spoken, God promises a Deliverer. | Genesis | 32 linked studies |
| The Image of God | Genesis 1:26 to 28 says that God made man in His image and likeness to rule the earth. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| The Lamb | Revelation announces the Lion of Judah, then shows a Lamb standing as though slain. | Genesis | 50 linked studies |
| The Names of Satan | Scripture rarely gives the adversary a plain name. It gives him titles, and each one is a claim about what he does. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| The Nephilim and the Giants | The Nephilim of Genesis 6 are named again in the report of the spies, and Deuteronomy 2 and 3 list the giant peoples of Moab, Ammon and Bashan. | Genesis | 14 linked studies |
| The Noahic Covenant | Isaiah 54, Jeremiah 33 and Revelation 4 return to the covenant God makes with Noah after the flood. | Genesis | 18 linked studies |
| The Origin of Evil | Isaiah taunts the king of Babylon and Ezekiel laments the king of Tyre, in words that reach past any earthly throne. | Genesis | 14 linked studies |
| The Religion of Egypt: Its Gods and Practices | Egypt's magicians, priests, customs of the table, divination and embalming as Genesis records them in the story of Joseph, with the verdict of Exodus and the prophets. | Genesis | 11 linked studies |
| The Sanctity of Human Life | The doctrine rests on the image of God in Genesis 1 and 9 and on the texts that speak of a person before birth. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| The Scarlet Thread | Scarlet yarn and wool in the rites of the Law, the cord in Rahab's window and the blood of the sacrifices are read together with the blood of Christ. | Genesis | 22 linked studies |
| The Seed Promise | Genesis 3:15 promised a seed of the woman, and the line runs down the generations to the child of Bethlehem, whom Galatians 3:16 names Christ. | Genesis | 16 linked studies |
| The Seven Days of a Jewish Wedding | The wedding week of Genesis 29 and Judges 14, the parts of a wedding that Scripture records, and the bridegroom of the prophets and the Gospels. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| The Seventy Who Went Down and the Seventy-Five of Acts | In the Masoretic Text Jacob's household numbers seventy, and in the Septuagint of Genesis 46:27 and in Stephen's speech in Acts 7:14 it numbers seventy-five. | Genesis | 9 linked studies |
| The sign of circumcision | Genesis 17 makes circumcision the mark of the covenant for every male of the household, and the Law, the prophets and Paul each return to it. | Genesis | 13 linked studies |
| The Silver Cup and Joseph's Claim to Divine | Joseph's last test of his brothers, in which his steward charges them with stealing the cup his master uses for divination. | Genesis | 11 linked studies |
| The Spirit in the Old Testament | From Genesis 1:2 to Joel 2:28 the Old Testament gives the work of the Spirit a pattern of its own. | Genesis | 35 linked studies |
| The teraphim | The household figures called teraphim, which Laban, Micah, Michal and the king of Babylon kept or consulted. | Genesis | 13 linked studies |
| The Tithe | The tenth given to God in Scripture, from Abram's gift to Melchizedek, through the Levites' tithe and Malachi's storehouse, to the argument of Hebrews 7. | Genesis | 22 linked studies |
| The toledot formula of Genesis | Genesis carries eleven headings, and each one names the creation, a man or a family. | Genesis | 10 linked studies |
| The Two Lines of Cain and Seth | The descendants of Adam through Cain and through Seth, which Genesis 4 and 5 record and Luke 3 carries on to Jesus. | Genesis | 7 linked studies |
| The Watchers and the Nephilim | The sons of God are the fallen Watchers, and their union with women produced the Nephilim, the plain sense of the idiom. | Genesis | 37 linked studies |
| The wife and sister scenes | Genesis 12, 20 and 26 tell how Abram in Egypt, Abraham at Gerar and Isaac at Gerar each passed off his wife as his sister before a foreign king. | Genesis | 9 linked studies |
| The Younger Set Before the Elder | Abel and Seth, Isaac, Jacob, Perez, Joseph and Judah, and Ephraim are the younger sons Genesis raises over the firstborn. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| Trees: Eden, Cross, New Jerusalem | The tree of life stands in the garden of Genesis 2 and again in the city of Revelation 22, and the apostles call the cross a tree. | Genesis | 18 linked studies |
| Types of Christ: Joseph and Joshua | Two Old Testament men are read as pictures of Christ, Joseph for the shape of his life and Joshua for his name. | Genesis | 27 linked studies |
| Who the Holy Spirit Is | The Holy Spirit speaks, chooses, knows and can be grieved, and Scripture calls him God. | Genesis | 21 linked studies |
| Work and Vocation | Work in Scripture from God's six days and the garden of Eden to the law of the Sabbath and the letters of Paul, with the Reformers' teaching on calling. | Genesis | 14 linked studies |
| How Scripture Shapes Christian Ethics | Exodus 20 to 23 read beside Leviticus 19, Micah 6, Matthew 22 and Romans 13, with four readings of how the law of Moses binds Christians. | Exodus | 13 linked studies |
| Lending, Pledges and the Year of Release | The laws of the loan, the pledge and the seventh year, from the Book of the Covenant to Nehemiah and the synagogue at Nazareth. | Exodus | 8 linked studies |
| Passover | Israel keeps the feast on the fourteenth day of the first month, and all four Gospels set the death of Jesus at its season in Jerusalem. | Exodus | 45 linked studies |
| Redemption | Exodus calls the LORD the redeemer of Israel, and the New Testament names the blood of Christ as the price of His people's redemption. | Exodus | 21 linked studies |
| The Book of the Covenant | Exodus 20:22 to 23:33 holds the laws the LORD gave Moses at Sinai, and Exodus 24 seals them as a covenant in blood. | Exodus | 21 linked studies |
| The Burning Bush: the Name Revealed | A bush that burns and is not consumed, the Name I AM THAT I AM, and five objections from a man who did not want to go. | Exodus | 19 linked studies |
| The Exodus, Redemption's Master-Type | Plagues, Passover, sea, and song: the deliverance from Egypt as the pattern every later rescue in Scripture is measured by. | Exodus | 42 linked studies |
| The Glory That Filled the House | The cloud and the glory in Scripture, from the tent in the wilderness and Solomon's temple to the visions of Ezekiel and the Gospel of John. | Exodus | 13 linked studies |
| The Golden Calf: Covenant Made, Broken, Remade | Apostasy at the foot of the mountain, the tablets shattered, Moses' four appeals in the breach, and the Name proclaimed in 34:6–7. | Exodus | 35 linked studies |
| The Grain Offering | Leviticus 2 and Leviticus 6:14 to 23, the five forms of the offering, and the readings of Cain's offering and of Malachi's pure offering. | Exodus | 14 linked studies |
| The Half Shekel and the Temple Tax | The law of Exodus 30 for the census of Israel, the silver it raised, and the yearly Temple tax of later centuries. | Exodus | 12 linked studies |
| The Hardening of the Heart | Exodus speaks of a hardened heart in nineteen verses, from Moses' return to Egypt to the crossing of the sea. | Exodus | 15 linked studies |
| The High-Priestly Line | Israel's chief priests from Sinai to the trial of Jesus, set beside the order of Melchizedek in Hebrews 7. | Exodus | 26 linked studies |
| The Intercession of Moses | A study of the prayers of Exodus 32 to 34 for a people under judgment, read beside Psalm 106:23 and Romans 9:3. | Exodus | 15 linked studies |
| The Mosaic Covenant | Exodus 19 to 24 records the terms the LORD set for the tribes of Jacob and the rite that bound them to Him. | Exodus | 27 linked studies |
| The Name of the LORD Given at the Bush | God's name and its meaning in Exodus, read beside the words of Jesus in John 8:58. | Exodus | 9 linked studies |
| The Numbering of the Ten Commandments | The three ways Jewish, Orthodox, Reformed, Catholic and Lutheran readers count the ten words of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, and how they divide them between the two tablets. | Exodus | 11 linked studies |
| The Ordination of the Priests | The seven days in which Moses washed, clothed and anointed Aaron and his sons as priests, from the command of Exodus 29 to the record of Leviticus 8 and 9. | Exodus | 16 linked studies |
| The Peace Offering | Leviticus 3 and Leviticus 7, the meals of Genesis 31 and Exodus 24, and the readings of the word shelamim. | Exodus | 16 linked studies |
| The Quail at Kibroth-hattaavah | Numbers 11 read beside Exodus 16, the Psalms and 1 Corinthians 10, with the readings of Jewish and Christian commentators. | Exodus | 15 linked studies |
| The Sabbath in Jewish Practice | The weekly day of rest in the Torah, the prophets and the Mishnah, and how it was kept in the home, the synagogue and the gates of Jerusalem. | Exodus | 12 linked studies |
| The Seder, the Meal Exodus 12 Is Kept By | The foods, the four cups, the children's questions and the retelling of the Jewish Passover supper, traced from Exodus to the rabbis. | Exodus | 13 linked studies |
| The Spirit given for craft: Bezalel and Oholiab | Two chapters of Exodus record the call of the two master craftsmen of the tabernacle and the gift that fitted them for the work. | Exodus | 10 linked studies |
| The Tent of Meeting Outside the Camp | A study of the meeting place of Exodus 33:7 to 11 beyond the camp, and of how it stands to the tabernacle raised in Exodus 40. | Exodus | 14 linked studies |
| The Urim and Thummim and Inquiring of the LORD | The objects in the high priest's breastpiece, from Aaron's ordination at Sinai to the governor's order on the priests in Jerusalem. | Exodus | 11 linked studies |
| When God relents, and the gracious and compassionate formula | The LORD's name at Exodus 34:6-7 recurs in eight later passages, and Exodus, Amos and Jonah say He relented from a disaster He had announced. | Exodus | 20 linked studies |
| Cut Off from Among His People | First named in the covenant with Abraham and last in the law of the water of purification, in Numbers 19. | Leviticus | 12 linked studies |
| Firstfruits | A law of the harvest in Leviticus 23, and a word the New Testament gives to Christ, the Spirit, believers and Israel. | Leviticus | 18 linked studies |
| Gleaning and the corner of the field | What the Law of Moses kept back from the reaper for the needy, and what it let a passer-by eat by hand. The Mishnah's tractate Peah sets out the rules for the gifts left at harvest. | Leviticus | 17 linked studies |
| Jubilee | A fifty-year clock in Leviticus 25 that Isaiah and Luke carry to the synagogue at Nazareth. | Leviticus | 30 linked studies |
| Molech and Topheth | What the Law said about Molech, what kings of Judah did at Topheth, and how the name of that valley reached the Gospels. | Leviticus | 13 linked studies |
| The Appointed Times Read as a Calendar of Prophecy | C. H. Mackintosh, a Brethren writer, set the seven feasts of Leviticus 23 against the work of Christ in order, and later premillennial teachers took up his reading. | Leviticus | 16 linked studies |
| The blood rule after the cross | Leviticus 17, with Genesis 9:4 before Sinai, the council's letter in Acts 15 and 21, and Hebrews 9 on the blood of Christ. | Leviticus | 14 linked studies |
| The Christian Year | Each part of the Christian calendar entered the record at its own time, beginning with the Lord's day of the Didache. Rome and Asia divided over the date of Easter, and the Augsburg Confession and the Westminster Directory parted over feasts. | Leviticus | 11 linked studies |
| The Day of Atonement | Leviticus 16 orders the day in eight stations, from the warning at the veil to the statute the people keep. | Leviticus | 49 linked studies |
| The Death Penalty in the Law of Moses | The capital laws of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy name the offences that carry death and the courts that try them. | Leviticus | 12 linked studies |
| The Fall Feasts | Leviticus 23:23 to 43 sets the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles in the seventh month of Israel's year. | Leviticus | 22 linked studies |
| The Feast of Tabernacles | Seven days in booths of branches after the autumn harvest, closed by an eighth day of solemn assembly. | Leviticus | 18 linked studies |
| The Feast of Trumpets | A sacred assembly called by the blast of horns and trumpets, with rest from regular work and an offering made by fire. | Leviticus | 14 linked studies |
| The Feast of Unleavened Bread | The feast ran from the fifteenth to the twenty-first day of the first month, with a sacred assembly on its first day and on its seventh. | Leviticus | 19 linked studies |
| The Hebrew Feasts | Leviticus 23 sets the Sabbath and seven appointed feasts on fixed days of Israel's year, four in the spring and three in the seventh month. | Leviticus | 34 linked studies |
| The Holiness Code | Ten chapters of Leviticus order Israel's worship, family life, dealings with neighbors, priesthood, calendar and land. | Leviticus | 12 linked studies |
| The Passover and the First Month | The first month of Israel's year held the Passover, the seven days of unleavened bread and the sheaf of firstfruits. | Leviticus | 13 linked studies |
| The Sacrificial System | Burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt: the five offerings of Leviticus 1 to 7, each with its own rite and its own purpose. | Leviticus | 40 linked studies |
| The Scapegoat and the Word Azazel | What the Hebrew word azazel of Leviticus 16 has been taken to mean, who has held each reading, and how the rite of the live goat was kept and read. | Leviticus | 15 linked studies |
| The Seventy Years | How Daniel, Zechariah and the Chronicler count the seventy years of Babylon, and why 2 Chronicles 36 joins them to the Sabbath years of Leviticus 26. | Leviticus | 9 linked studies |
| The Sin Offering and the Guilt Offering | The law of Leviticus 4:1 to 7:10 names who brings each offering for sin, what he brings and what the priests do with it. | Leviticus | 15 linked studies |
| The Three Forbidden Mixtures | What Moses forbade Israel to mix, and how the rabbis, Josephus, Maimonides and the church have explained it. | Leviticus | 8 linked studies |
| Tsara'at: the affliction of Leviticus 13 and 14 | Leviticus 13 and 14 have a priest examine a mark on the skin, on cloth or on a house, and they set out the cleansing that brings the healed back into the camp. | Leviticus | 12 linked studies |
| Vows in Israel | What Leviticus 27, Numbers 30 and Deuteronomy 23 teach about vows made to God, and the vows told in Scripture from Genesis to Acts. | Leviticus | 19 linked studies |
| Mouth to Mouth: How God Spoke with Moses | Numbers 12 read beside Exodus 33, Deuteronomy, John, Hebrews and 1 Corinthians, with the Hebrew of the LORD's answer and the readings of Jewish and Christian commentators. | Numbers | 10 linked studies |
| Restitution and the Added Fifth | Leviticus 5 and 6 and Numbers 5 read beside the theft laws of Exodus 22 and the promise of Zacchaeus, with the readings of Jewish and Christian commentators. | Numbers | 12 linked studies |
| The Bronze Serpent | Numbers 21:4 to 9 records the bronze snake Moses set on a pole in the wilderness, and in John 3 Jesus compares His own lifting up to it. | Numbers | 18 linked studies |
| The Covenant of Phinehas | Numbers 25 tells how a priest's zeal won his line a lasting covenant, and Psalm 106, Malachi 2 and Hebrews 7 read it again. | Numbers | 17 linked studies |
| The Levitical Towns | The tribe that served at the tent held no territory of its own, so the law scattered its homes through the other tribes' land. | Numbers | 11 linked studies |
| The Nazirite Vow | Numbers 6:1 to 21 read with Samson, Samuel, Amos and Paul, and with Josephus, the Mishnah and Christian commentators. | Numbers | 17 linked studies |
| The Ordeal of the Suspected Wife | The law of jealousy in Numbers 5 read beside the law of witnesses and the prophets, with the readings of Jewish and Christian commentators. | Numbers | 12 linked studies |
| The Second Passover | Numbers 9 read beside Exodus 12, Numbers 19 and the Passover of King Hezekiah, with the readings of Jewish and Christian commentators. | Numbers | 12 linked studies |
| The seventy elders and the Spirit given to them | Numbers 11:10 to 30 records the gathering at the Tent of Meeting where the LORD shared the burden of leading Israel among seventy men. | Numbers | 13 linked studies |
| The Tribal Allotments | Numbers 26 to 36 read beside Joshua 13 to 19, with the census counts, Bonne's map of the tribes and the readings of Jewish and Christian commentators. | Numbers | 12 linked studies |
| Circumcision of the Heart | The Old Testament's own call for an inward cutting, read again by the New Testament in Romans 2 and Colossians 2. | Deuteronomy | 23 linked studies |
| Gerizim and Ebal: the blessing and the curse | The ceremony marked Israel as the people of the LORD, as Moses declared in Deuteronomy 27:9. | Deuteronomy | 20 linked studies |
| Prophet, Priest and King: The Threefold Office of Christ | Deuteronomy 17 and 18 give the rules for a king Israel may one day ask for and the share of its priests, and they promise a prophet like Moses. | Deuteronomy | 19 linked studies |
| The Divine Council | Psalm 82, 1 Kings 22, Job 1 and Psalm 89 each describe a court gathered for judgment in heaven, and Deuteronomy 32:8 survives in two readings that bear on who sits in it. | Deuteronomy | 21 linked studies |
| The early and the latter rain | Moses promised Israel two rains a year in their season, one in autumn and one in spring. | Deuteronomy | 18 linked studies |
| The Farmer's Creed | A law of Deuteronomy gave the worshipper set words to speak over two gifts, the firstfruits and the tithe of the third year. | Deuteronomy | 14 linked studies |
| The forbidden arts | The law of Deuteronomy 18:9 to 14 names nine practices of the peoples of Canaan and forbids every one of them. | Deuteronomy | 16 linked studies |
| The high places | Deuteronomy 12 sets one place for Israel's offerings, and 1 and 2 Kings follow the hilltop shrines from Solomon to Josiah. | Deuteronomy | 16 linked studies |
| The Land Covenant | Deuteronomy 29 and 30 record the covenant Moses made with Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant made at Horeb, another name for Sinai. | Deuteronomy | 24 linked studies |
| The prophet like Moses | Deuteronomy 18 promises Israel a prophet like Moses, and the New Testament names Jesus as that prophet. | Deuteronomy | 16 linked studies |
| The rules of war | Deuteronomy 20 sets the order of Israel's wars from the muster to the siege, and three later laws of the book add to it. | Deuteronomy | 14 linked studies |
| The Shema | Israel's daily confession, word by word, and the moment Jesus names it the first and great commandment. | Deuteronomy | 19 linked studies |
| The stubborn and rebellious son | Deuteronomy 21:18 to 21 gives a household in Israel its procedure for a son beyond correction. | Deuteronomy | 12 linked studies |
| The Three Pilgrim Feasts | Deuteronomy 16 names the three yearly feasts, where they are kept and the gift each man brings. | Deuteronomy | 21 linked studies |
| The Treaty Form of Deuteronomy | Scholars compare Deuteronomy with treaties from two empires of the ancient Near East. | Deuteronomy | 24 linked studies |
| True and false prophets | Moses' law on prophets in Deuteronomy 13 and 18, four contests between prophets in Kings and Jeremiah, and the warnings of Jesus and John. | Deuteronomy | 14 linked studies |
| Two or three witnesses | The rule of Deuteronomy 17 and 19 passed into the teaching of Jesus and the letters of Paul. | Deuteronomy | 13 linked studies |
History
22 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fear Not: How Often Scripture Says It | In the Berean Standard Bible 121 verses command a hearer not to fear or to take courage, 89 in the Old Testament and 32 in the New. | Joshua | 10 linked studies |
| Hard Questions in the Old Testament | What Deuteronomy and Joshua say about the destruction of the Canaanites, the sun over Gibeon and the hardened hearts of Joshua 11. | Joshua | 11 linked studies |
| Micah's idol and the migration of Dan | Judges 17 and 18, with the loss of Dan's land in Joshua 19:47 and the later worship at Dan in Kings and Amos. | Joshua | 11 linked studies |
| The devoted thing (herem) | The Law of Moses used herem for a thing given wholly to the LORD, and Israel carried out the ban from Hormah in the Negev to Saul's war on Amalek. | Joshua | 17 linked studies |
| The Haftarah | How the closing lesson of the Sabbath and feast-day readings is chosen, who reads it, and which lessons come from the Former Prophets. | Joshua | 13 linked studies |
| The lot in Israel | How Israel divided the land by lot at Shiloh, the other matters Scripture records the lot deciding from Leviticus to Acts, and what Proverbs teaches about the lot's decision. | Joshua | 11 linked studies |
| The Register of the Thirty-One Kings | The chapter that closes the wars of Joshua and comes before the division of the land among the tribes. | Joshua | 7 linked studies |
| Baal and the religion of Canaan | Judges 2, 6, 8 and 10, with Baal of Peor in Numbers 25, Mount Carmel in 1 Kings 18, Jehu, Josiah, Hosea and Jeremiah. | Judges | 13 linked studies |
| Hospitality in Israel and the Early Church | How the law of Moses, the sending of the disciples and the letters of the apostles made the welcome of strangers a duty, and how the first churches lodged their travelling teachers. | Judges | 26 linked studies |
| No king in Israel: the refrain that closes Judges | Judges 17:6, 18:1, 19:1 and 21:25, read beside the law of the one place of worship and Gideon's answer in Judges 8:23, with four readings of what the refrain argues. | Judges | 11 linked studies |
| The land Israel did not take | Judges 1:19 to 36 and Judges 2:20 to 3:4, with the land that remained in Joshua 13 and the warnings of Exodus 23, Numbers 33 and Deuteronomy 7. | Judges | 15 linked studies |
| A Day in the Life | The hours, the meal, the measure and the household of a harvest town, as the book of Ruth records them. | Ruth | 15 linked studies |
| Chesed, the Loyalty No Law Compels | The word comes once in each of the book's first three chapters, and the fourth chapter shows its acts at the gate without naming it. | Ruth | 24 linked studies |
| Money, Law and Power | Who owned the fields, how silver changed hands and who judged, from the days of Ruth to Samuel's warning about a king. | Ruth | 11 linked studies |
| The city gate as the court | How an Israelite town heard cases and settled sales at its gate, read from Ruth 4 and the laws of Deuteronomy. | Ruth | 11 linked studies |
| The Kinsman-Redeemer: Boaz and the Shadow of Christ (Ruth 2–4) | Near, willing, and able: the law's threefold qualification for a redeemer, met by Boaz and fulfilled in Christ. | Ruth | 23 linked studies |
| David, a Type of Christ | David is not a type of Christ because his life happens to resemble Jesus'. | 1 Samuel | 21 linked studies |
| Hearing God | Samuel's night call, Elijah's still small voice, the sheep who know the Shepherd's voice, the scripture spine, and the tests Scripture gives for what is heard. | 1 Samuel | 9 linked studies |
| The Anointing | This page follows one word from the compounded oil of Exodus, through the anointed offices of prophet, priest and king, to the title Messiah and Christ itself, and out to the unction John says abides in every believer. | 1 Samuel | 12 linked studies |
| The Davidic Covenant — 2 Samuel 7 | David wants to build God a house; God promises to build David one instead, a throne established for ever, quoted directly of Jesus in Luke, Acts, and Hebrews. | 2 Samuel | 39 linked studies |
| Providence Hidden: the God Who Is Never Named — Esther | Esther never names God, yet a chain of load-bearing 'coincidences' runs the book, the paradigm case of hidden providence, traced to Joseph, Daniel, and Acts 4. | Esther | 9 linked studies |
| Purim, the Feast of Esther | Purim is the feast Esther's own closing chapter founds, not Moses: Haman's lot decides a massacre date, the month turns from sorrow to gladness, and Mordecai's letter commands the two days kept ever since. | Esther | 9 linked studies |
Wisdom and Poetry
9 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Costly Oath Kept | Scripture records oaths kept at a cost and oaths broken, from Israel's treaty with Gibeon to the teaching of Jesus on plain speech. | Psalms | 11 linked studies |
| Grace Before Meals | Scripture joins thanks to food from the law of Moses to the letters of Paul, and Jesus gave thanks over bread at His meals. | Psalms | 5 linked studies |
| Gratitude, Anxiety and the Brain | Paul set thanksgiving against worry, and psychologists have since compared grateful people with anxious ones and tested a habit of giving thanks. | Psalms | 12 linked studies |
| Repentance | This page opens with repentance as Jesus's first public word, then follows the three lost things of Luke 15 as his fullest picture of what repenting actually is. | Psalms | 38 linked studies |
| The Fear of the LORD — the Beginning of Wisdom | Six books say the same sentence: the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the passages that command trembling promise the friendship of God. | Psalms | 22 linked studies |
| The Goodness of God and the Problem of Evil | The problem of evil asks how a God who is good and almighty can allow evil, and Christian teachers have answered it since the early church. | Psalms | 11 linked studies |
| The Messianic Psalms | Six psalms the New Testament quotes of Jesus, from the begotten Son of Psalm 2 through the forsaken sufferer of Psalm 22 to the priest-king of Psalm 110. | Psalms | 25 linked studies |
| Christ Our Wisdom: Proverbs 8 and the Wisdom of God | Lady Wisdom's self-portrait in Proverbs 8 taken up by the New Testament for Christ, and the Greek verb in verse 22 that started church history's largest doctrinal fight. | Proverbs | 14 linked studies |
| The Bride & the Jewish Wedding | Scripture really does call the church a bride and Jesus a bridegroom: Hosea says it, John the Baptist says it, Paul says it, and Revelation ends on a wedding. | Song of Solomon | 13 linked studies |
Prophets
31 live, 2 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immanuel | The Hebrew name of Isaiah 7 and 8 that Matthew gives to Jesus, with its meaning, its setting under King Ahaz and the readings of what it says of the child. | Isaiah | 11 linked studies |
| The Branch and the King — the Four Plantings of Tsemach | Tsemach planted four times in the Old Testament, King, Servant, Man, and Branch of the LORD, converging on the crowned priest-king Zechariah stages as a living parable. | Isaiah | 14 linked studies |
| The Holy One of Israel — Isaiah 6 | Isaiah 6's throne-room vision in five beats, seen, heard, undone, cleansed, sent, and the title-refrain that runs the whole book. | Isaiah | 8 linked studies |
| The Remnant — she'erith | Elijah's seven thousand, Isaiah's sign-son, Zephaniah's refuge-takers, Ezra's escaped, to Paul's remnant according to the election of grace. | Isaiah | 26 linked studies |
| The Servant Songs — Isaiah 42, 49, 50, 53 | Four songs, one figure: the Servant of the LORD called, commissioned, struck, and slain, sharpening until it can only be one Person. | Isaiah | 13 linked studies |
| The Suffering Servant | Isaiah 52:13–53:12 — the single most extensive and specific messianic prophecy in the Old Testament, preserved in a scroll that predates Christ by more than a century. | Isaiah | 21 linked studies |
| The Virgin Birth | Two Gospel writers who were not copying each other say the same impossible thing about how Jesus was born: one telling it through Joseph, one through Mary. | Isaiah | 17 linked studies |
| Unto Us a Child Is Born | Isaiah names the child of Isaiah 9:6-7 with four titles that only fit God, and Gabriel echoes the same promise to Mary seven centuries later. | Isaiah | 10 linked studies |
| The Jeconiah Blood Curse | God swore no descendant of Jeconiah would ever reign — yet Matthew runs Messiah's line straight through him; the virgin birth is how both stay true. | Jeremiah | 3 linked studies |
| The New Covenant — Jeremiah 31:31–34 | Jeremiah’s four promises over a burning Jerusalem, quoted at length in Hebrews. | Jeremiah | 33 linked studies |
| The Potter and the Clay — Jeremiah 18–19 | One trade visited twice: the marred vessel made again on the wheel, and the fired bottle smashed where it could not be mended. | Jeremiah | 3 linked studies |
| Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 | Three mercy-words packed into two verses at Lamentations' exact center, because of the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, new every morning. | Lamentations | 9 linked studies |
| Gog and Magog | Ezekiel 38-39's northern coalition is dragged by hooks against Israel and destroyed by God alone, and this page names Gog honestly rather than asserting an identification, then follows the aftermath and Revelation 20:8's reuse of the same names. | Ezekiel | 6 linked studies |
| The Glory Departed — Ezekiel 8–11 | Ezekiel carried further in past worse abominations while the glory of God departs the temple station by station out the east gate. | Ezekiel | 12 linked studies |
| The New Heart and the New Spirit | Ezekiel 11, 18 and 36 read beside Jeremiah 31 and John 3. | Ezekiel | 10 linked studies |
| Christophany | A figure called the angel of the LORD appears through the Old Testament who speaks as God in the first person, is addressed as God by the people who meet him, and is still described as sent by God. | Daniel | 15 linked studies |
| Territorial Spirits | One disputed word in the Song of Moses opens onto Daniel's princes, Paul's principalities, and the map behind the nations. | Daniel | 0 linked studies |
| The Abomination of Desolation | This page traces Daniel's phrase through its attested first fulfillment under Antiochus, then lays out where it lands last: A.D. 70, a still-future man of sin, or both as type and antitype. | Daniel | 10 linked studies |
| The Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9:24–27 | Seventy sevens decreed on Daniel's people, and the five ways the church has read the count, each given at full strength. | Daniel | 31 linked studies |
| The Son of Man — Daniel 7:13–14 | The night vision behind the title Jesus used of Himself more than any other, a human figure brought on the clouds to the Ancient of Days. | Daniel | 22 linked studies |
| The Statue and the Stone — Daniel 2 and 7 | One dream told twice: the metals of Nebuchadnezzar's image set against the beasts of Daniel's night vision, the same four kingdoms both ways. | Daniel | 15 linked studies |
| The Third Temple | Three texts, Daniel 9:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, and Revelation 11:1-2, are shown to each require a functioning temple, and three readings of the temple of God, literal, the church, and the historicist papacy reading, are given with their holders and no verdict. | Daniel | 13 linked studies |
| Hesed, the LORD's Loving Devotion | A Hebrew noun found in 241 verses of twenty-eight books of the Old Testament, 127 of them in the Psalms. | Hosea | 25 linked studies |
| Not My People becomes My People | Readers since the church fathers have differed on how Paul and Peter could give words first spoken of Israel to the Gentile believers in their churches. | Hosea | 8 linked studies |
| The Day of the LORD — yom YHWH | Yom YHWH: the spine of the Twelve, from Joel's locusts to Malachi's Elijah, into Pentecost, the thief in the night, and the elements dissolved: near and far on one telescoping line. | Joel | 36 linked studies |
| Justice and Righteousness: Mishpat and Tsedaqah | Mishpat and tsedaqah traced from Deuteronomy's case law through Amos, Isaiah, and Micah to Jesus naming them the weightier matters of the law, with Amos 5:24's reception history held honestly. | Amos | 20 linked studies |
| The Patience and the Wrath of God | Nahum 1:3 repeats over Nineveh the words the LORD spoke of Himself to Moses at Sinai. | Nahum | 20 linked studies |
| The Just Shall Live by His Faith — Habakkuk 2:4 | Habakkuk 2:4 and its three New Testament quotations, one line of Hebrew that becomes Luther's Reformation tower text. | Habakkuk | 13 linked studies |
| The Vision That Waits for Its Appointed Time | Habakkuk was told to write a vision on tablets and to wait for its appointed time. | Habakkuk | 13 linked studies |
| The God Who Sings — Zephaniah 3:17 | Zephaniah 3:17: the one verse where God sings, set beside the bridegroom's joy, the three joys of Luke 15, and the joy set before Him. | Zephaniah | 7 linked studies |
| The One They Have Pierced | A study of Zechariah's verse on the One pierced and of its use in the Gospel of John and in Revelation, with readings from Jerome to Spurgeon. | Zechariah | 9 linked studies |
| The Throne Vision | Planned in the queue for Isaiah. | Isaiah | In preparation |
| The Way of Holiness | Planned in the queue for Isaiah. | Isaiah | In preparation |
Gospels
71 live, 1 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blasphemy Against the Spirit | This page walks through the healing that provoked the warning about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, then Mark's own note naming exactly what triggered it, calling an undeniable work of God's mercy the work of an unclean spirit. | Matthew | 7 linked studies |
| Come Unto Me | This page reads Jesus's invitation in Matthew 11:28-30 as hanging directly on His most exclusive claim, made one verse earlier, that only the Son truly knows the Father. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Demonology | What Scripture actually says about the unseen adversary — named, bounded, and already defeated. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Entering the Kingdom | The page lines up five different entrance sayings from four Gospels and shows what each one strips away before showing what each one gives. | Matthew | 9 linked studies |
| Follow Me | This page traces every recorded 'Follow Me' scene: the fishermen at their nets, Matthew at his tax booth, the first disciples by the riverbank, and Peter again after the resurrection, with public-domain commentary on each. | Matthew | 6 linked studies |
| Forgiveness and Health | Hebrews 12:15 calls bitterness a root that springs up and defiles many, and Paul names bitterness first among the sins that believers are told to get rid of in Ephesians 4:31. | Matthew | 7 linked studies |
| Forgiving Yourself: What Scripture Says | Scripture answers a conscience that keeps accusing with God's own verdict on confessed sin, in the Psalms, Romans, Hebrews and 1 John and in the restoration of Peter. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Healing | This page teaches healing from the texts, from the atonement question to James 5's standing instruction, and keeps two honest counterexamples in view the whole way. | Matthew | 10 linked studies |
| His Authority | This page traces four escalating claims Jesus made about his own authority: to teach, to forgive sin, to judge and give life, and finally, after the resurrection, over everything. | Matthew | 10 linked studies |
| Jesus on Discipleship | This page gathers Jesus's own discipleship sayings across nine sections, from the call through the cross, the vine, the ransom saying, and the foot-washing, then names two live debates: lordship salvation versus free grace, and how much weight the dust of your rabbi image can bear. | Matthew | 17 linked studies |
| Jesus on Money and Possessions | This page pairs Jesus's money sayings as counter-cases, the rich man who could not let go against Zacchaeus who let go of half, then works through the temple treasury, the Caesar coin, the overflowing measure, and five historic positions on how a Christian should hold wealth. | Matthew | 17 linked studies |
| Jesus on Prayer | This page fills in four prayer texts not covered elsewhere on the site: the prayer of agreement, asking in His name, Gethsemane's threefold Matthew account, and His pre-dawn withdrawal habit in Mark, then holds the promise texts beside Gethsemane's own unanswered request. | Matthew | 18 linked studies |
| Jesus on the Kingdom | This hub gives full original treatment to four texts the rest of the kingdom estate does not cover: the opening announcement of Mark 1:14-15, the within-or-among question of Luke 17:20-21, named positions on already and not yet, and the full John 18:36-38 exchange before Pilate, dooring everywhere else to the pages already built. | Matthew | 14 linked studies |
| Jesus on the Scriptures | This page tracks nine places where Jesus himself quotes, argues from, or corrects a reading of Scripture, backed by a source ledger of every Old Testament book he draws from, then closes with three named positions on how law and gospel relate. | Matthew | 17 linked studies |
| Jesus: Titles & Roles | No single title carries him. Scripture names Jesus by a constellation of titles — Christ, Son of Man, Lamb of God, Logos, High Priest, King of Kings — and each one is a door. This hub gathers every title page on the site and anchors the rest to the verses that confer them. | Matthew | 9 linked studies |
| Strength Under Control | James sets the bit that guides a whole horse beside the tongue that no man can tame. | Matthew | 14 linked studies |
| Take Up Your Cross | This page reads the saying in Matthew, Mark, and Luke side by side, explains what carrying a cross actually meant in that world, and traces the same command into Paul's own letters. | Matthew | 15 linked studies |
| The Beatitudes | Eight blessings from the mountain — each with roots deep in the Psalms and Isaiah — and the shape of the life Jesus calls blessed. | Matthew | 16 linked studies |
| The Church | Jesus said He would build something, and the word He used meant a gathering of people who had been called out: not a building. | Matthew | 29 linked studies |
| The Father's Care | This page follows Jesus's argument from birds and lilies, to a flawed father, to a two-penny sparrow, showing what each rung proves about the Father's character. | Matthew | 10 linked studies |
| The Great Tribulation | This page traces the great tribulation from Jesus's own words in Matthew 24 back to Daniel and Jeremiah, then lays out the seven-year framework and the multitude Revelation shows coming out the other side. | Matthew | 12 linked studies |
| The Kingdom Is at Hand | Jesus's first public sentence, 'the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel,' is taken apart clause by clause. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| The Kingdom of Heaven: Matthew's Great Subject | Why Matthew alone says 'of heaven,' and a kingdom already at hand yet not consummated in the present age. | Matthew | 16 linked studies |
| The Kingdom Parables | Matthew 13 is one teaching day with two rooms — four parables from a boat to the multitude, four in a house to the disciples — and the chapter's own hinges show the floorplan. | Matthew | 4 linked studies |
| The Least Is Greatest | The Twelve argue over who is greatest at least twice, once on the road and once at the Last Supper table, and Jesus gives the same answer both times: whoever wants to lead must serve. | Matthew | 7 linked studies |
| The Lord's Prayer | Jesus taught the prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, and Luke records a shorter form of it. | Matthew | 26 linked studies |
| The Prayer of Agreement | The page reads Matthew 18:19-20 both ways the church always has: as the promise that closes a specific case about a sinning brother, and as a standing promise for any two or three who pray together. | Matthew | 7 linked studies |
| The Questions Jesus Asked | Jesus taught as much by asking as by telling. | Matthew | 5 linked studies |
| The Son of God | This page follows three scenes where Jesus claims equality with the Father, each with the church's commentary, ending with what His own hearers understood Him to mean. | Matthew | 13 linked studies |
| The Trinity | This page builds the doctrine step by step from Scripture, from the Old Testament's hints to the historic councils that gave it its vocabulary, then names the readings the church weighed and set aside and why every human analogy for it breaks down. | Matthew | 16 linked studies |
| Water Baptism | Jesus commanded baptism, and Christians have read that command in more than one way. | Matthew | 21 linked studies |
| Whose Money Is It | Scripture answers the ownership question first: everything belongs to God, and people are managers of what He hands them. | Matthew | 23 linked studies |
| Why Jesus Spoke in Parables | The disciples asked the question outright — Matthew 13:10 — and Jesus answered it from Isaiah 6. One form of speech that reveals and conceals at once, and the text says both without blushing. | Matthew | 4 linked studies |
| Abba, Father | This page traces one Aramaic word from Jesus's own cry in Gethsemane into Paul's letters, where the Spirit puts that same cry into the believer's mouth. | Mark | 7 linked studies |
| He Told Them Three Times | The page lines up all three passion predictions side by side, each one paired with how the disciples failed to receive it and how Jesus answered that failure. | Mark | 11 linked studies |
| Tell No One | Jesus silences demons, the healed, and His own disciples, while everyone in Mark keeps asking who He is, until the secret breaks open under oath. | Mark | 5 linked studies |
| The Ransom — Mark 10:45 | One sentence carries the whole Gospel of Mark: the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many. | Mark | 9 linked studies |
| Count the Cost | This page works out the arithmetic of the tower and the king, the two parables that carry Jesus's warning, then unpacks the Semitic 'hate' language of verse 26 and traces the passage to the church's own voices and to Bonhoeffer. | Luke | 9 linked studies |
| Parables of Jesus | The kingdom told in stories — some forty parables of Jesus, gathered into seven clusters and opened one door at a time. | Luke | 8 linked studies |
| Prayer in Luke — Jesus at Every Hinge | The Gospel of prayer: Jesus praying at the baptism, before the Twelve, before the confession, on the mountain, and from the cross. | Luke | 6 linked studies |
| The Great Reversal — the Ledger of Luke | Luke keeps accounts: the low lifted, the self-secure emptied, the Magnificat, the banquet, Lazarus, and Zacchaeus as one double-entry ledger. | Luke | 6 linked studies |
| The Kingdom Within | Asked when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus answers that it comes 'not with observation,' then says it is 'within you' or 'in your midst,' a genuinely contested Greek phrase this page holds both ways rather than settling. | Luke | 5 linked studies |
| The Times of the Gentiles | Luke 21:24's Gentile dominion is traced against Daniel's statue on a clock running from Nebuchadnezzar to the stone cut without hands, with six commentators from Eusebius to Matthew Henry on what until means. | Luke | 7 linked studies |
| Types of Christ | The master typology index — 118 persons, events, institutions, and objects the Old Testament patterns toward Christ, every entry labeled by its warrant: the New Testament's own explicit claim, or the named tradition that drew it. | Luke | 19 linked studies |
| Why He Said He Came | This page gathers four times Jesus stated his own mission in plain words, at a tax collector's table, on the road, in Jericho, and in Capernaum, opened by the manifesto he read in Nazareth. | Luke | 9 linked studies |
| Abide in Me | This page walks through John 15:1-11's vine and branches, what the vinedresser's pruning actually meant in a first-century vineyard, and how the passage tells a branch to abide. | John | 12 linked studies |
| Asking in His Name | Five separate promises across John 14 through 16 are laid out side by side with the one condition Jesus attaches to them. | John | 6 linked studies |
| Born Again | Scripture never describes salvation as repair work. | John | 19 linked studies |
| Born of the Spirit | This page walks Nicodemus's night visit to Jesus in John 3 and the wordplay between wind, breath, and spirit that the passage turns on. | John | 20 linked studies |
| Eternal Life | The page collects four places Jesus defines eternal life in His own words, and shows that each one answers 'what is it' with less about duration and more about a Person known. | John | 10 linked studies |
| I Am the Door | This page walks John 10:1-10, Jesus' claim to be the sheepfold's one legitimate entrance, with a diagram of the fold, an answer to who the thieves and robbers really were, and the church's own voices on each of the three sayings. | John | 6 linked studies |
| Jesus on Himself | This page walks the seven I AM sayings one by one, then the bare before Abraham was, I am claim, the Son of Man title's Daniel 7 background, the trial testimony that convicted Him of blasphemy, and how the crowds who heard Him reacted. | John | 21 linked studies |
| Jesus on Salvation | This page follows four scenes where Jesus defines salvation in His own words: Nicodemus at night, Zacchaeus in the tree, the three lost things of Luke 15, and the narrow door, then closes on what He says salvation saves a person from and for. | John | 17 linked studies |
| Jesus on the Father | This hub gathers the Father-thread across the Gospels, some of it doored to fuller pages elsewhere, with its own original weight on the prayer's opening address, the father of the prodigal son, and the Abba word study. | John | 17 linked studies |
| Jesus on the Holy Spirit | This page walks Jesus's own teaching on the Spirit from Nicodemus's night visit through the upper room's Paraclete sayings to the promise of the Father that opens Acts, then doors out to the fuller doctrine, baptism, and blasphemy pages rather than repeating them. | John | 14 linked studies |
| Knowing the Father | This page studies two moments where Jesus claims to be the only way to know the Father: his prayer in Matthew 11 and his answer to Philip in John 14. | John | 8 linked studies |
| Love One Another | This page studies John 13:34-35's new commandment given the night of the betrayal, then follows it through John 15's greater love and its restatement to the disciples as friends, not servants. | John | 16 linked studies |
| Peace and the Nervous System | Psalm 4:8 names a sleep without fear, and nine published papers describe the body under strain and at rest. | John | 7 linked studies |
| The Christian Traditions | The families of churches, the councils and movements each came from, and the creed most of them confess. | John | 6 linked studies |
| The Deity of Christ | The whole canon names Jesus God in nine texts, in six acts that belong to God alone, and in six Old Testament texts about YHWH that the apostles apply to him. | John | 36 linked studies |
| The Father's Will | This page traces one thread through five sayings about the Father's will, from the Lord's Prayer to Gethsemane, and gathers what the church's commentators have said about each. | John | 7 linked studies |
| The Foot-Washing | This page walks John 13 verb by verb, then works through Peter's protest, what 'thou hast no part with me' means, and the two ways the church has read the command to keep washing feet. | John | 14 linked studies |
| The Good Shepherd | This page contrasts the hireling who flees with the shepherd who chooses to die, then follows the claim into the double-hand promise of John 10:27-30 and the Old Testament shepherd language standing behind it. | John | 19 linked studies |
| The Incarnation | The eternal Son became fully human without ceasing to be God, as John, Paul and Hebrews teach and the Council of Chalcedon confessed in 451. | John | 34 linked studies |
| The Light of the World | Jesus claims 'I am the light of the world' at the Feast of Tabernacles' own lamp-lighting, the Pharisees challenge it as a man's testimony about himself, and He answers without retracting a word. | John | 8 linked studies |
| The Paraclete | The page walks five things Jesus says the Paraclete will do, teach, testify, convict, guide, and glorify, each with its own verse and church voices. | John | 11 linked studies |
| The Resurrection and the Life | This page gathers church voices, Augustine, Irenaeus, John Gill, Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, and Albert Barnes, on Martha's faith and Jesus's claim to be the resurrection and the life. | John | 13 linked studies |
| The Seven 'I AM' Sayings: John | Seven times Jesus completes the sentence 'I am', bread, light, door, shepherd, resurrection, way, vine, each standing on an Old Testament picture. | John | 25 linked studies |
| The Way, the Truth, and the Life | This page carries two exchanges from the upper room: Thomas asking the way and Philip asking to see the Father, each with the Greek behind the text and four public-domain commentators. | John | 10 linked studies |
| Whoever Believes | John | 14 linked studies | |
| Worship | Jesus told a woman at a well that the right mountain was about to stop mattering, because the Father is looking for a kind of worshipper rather than a place. | John | 17 linked studies |
| The Christ, Elijah and the Prophet | Planned in the queue for John. | John | In preparation |
Acts and the Letters
83 live, 18 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baptism in the Holy Spirit (the Acts Evidence) | Five receptions of the Spirit in Acts laid out with the variety left in, and the Spirit's full operation today taught from each of them. | Acts | 18 linked studies |
| Pentecost | The fiftieth day, read twice — the Law given in fire at Sinai, the Spirit given in fire in Jerusalem. | Acts | 26 linked studies |
| Speaking in Tongues | This page walks Pentecost's known languages, then Corinth's two different settings for the gift, the sign-and-order rules Paul wrote, and when he dated the ceasing of tongues. | Acts | 9 linked studies |
| The Jerusalem Council — Acts 15 | One question walked into Jerusalem: must a Gentile become a Jew to be saved?, answered by four voices and a letter that set the church free. | Acts | 24 linked studies |
| The Promise of the Father | The page traces one continuous promise across five beats, from Jesus's last words in Luke's Gospel to Peter naming it kept at Pentecost. | Acts | 5 linked studies |
| The Three Pentecosts — Acts 2, 10 & 19 | The same outpouring three times, at three walls, the Spirit crossing every boundary the gospel has to cross, first. | Acts | 14 linked studies |
| Hope and Despair in the Mind | Four studies tested how hope and its loss bear on the mind, from hospital patients to fifty years of animal research. | Romans | 5 linked studies |
| Israel and the Olive Tree: Romans 9–11 | One tree, one root, branches broken off and grafted in, Paul's answer in Romans 9–11 to whether God's word to Israel has failed. | Romans | 24 linked studies |
| Justification by Faith: the Verdict of the Cross | How Romans says a guilty person is declared right with God, and what faith does. | Romans | 46 linked studies |
| Led by the Spirit | This page studies what Paul actually says about being led by the Spirit in Romans 8 and Galatians 5, then walks how the Spirit led concretely in the book of Acts. | Romans | 11 linked studies |
| No Condemnation, the Arc of Romans 8 | Romans 8 read as one span bolted at both ends by a negative, from 'no condemnation' to 'no separation,' climbing to the golden chain. | Romans | 9 linked studies |
| Predestination and Election | The texts first as data: the golden chain, Jacob and Esau, the whosoever texts, then the Reformed and Wesleyan readings at full strength, with MannaFest's flag planted honestly. | Romans | 12 linked studies |
| Put That on Mine Account: Imputation | The reckoning-word across the canon: Abraham believed, David blessed, the exchange of 2 Corinthians 5:21, and a sentence of business Greek in Philemon that says it all. | Romans | 8 linked studies |
| The Divided Self | Romans 7 teaches that believers died to the law through the body of Christ, defends the law itself as holy while sin used it as a weapon, and then describes a war between willing and doing that ends in a cry and an answer. | Romans | 7 linked studies |
| The Governing Authorities | Romans 13:1-7 grounds civil government itself in God's ordaining, names the ruler's sword and a Christian's conscience in the same breath, and calls for tribute, custom, fear, and honor rendered where due. | Romans | 7 linked studies |
| The Greetings of Romans | Romans 16 is the most personal chapter Paul wrote: twenty-six people greeted by name in a city he had never visited, and eight more sending greetings from Corinth. | Romans | 4 linked studies |
| The Groaning Creation | Romans 8:18-39 sets the sufferings of this present time beside the glory to come and refuses the comparison. | Romans | 7 linked studies |
| The Living Sacrifice | Romans 12:1-2 is the hinge of the letter. | Romans | 10 linked studies |
| The New Perspective on Paul | What Sanders, Dunn, and Wright actually claim, covenantal nomism, boundary markers, covenant membership, and the Reformation reading's answer, both at full strength. | Romans | 5 linked studies |
| The Romans Road — the Gospel's On-Ramp | Four milestones in Romans' own argument: all have sinned, the wages and the free gift, God's love proved at the cross, and a door standing open. | Romans | 10 linked studies |
| The Solas of the Reformation | The Protestant case of the sixteenth century on authority and salvation, set out phrase by phrase with the texts each reads. | Romans | 9 linked studies |
| The Two Adams — One Man, One Act, One Result — Romans 5:12–21 | Romans 5's mirrored ledger: one man, one act, one result, twice over, with grace super-abounding over the ruin. | Romans | 17 linked studies |
| The Universal Indictment | Romans 1:18-3:20 is Paul's opening case: the whole human race, Jew and Gentile alike, stands guilty before God. | Romans | 6 linked studies |
| The Weak and the Strong | Romans 14:1-15:13 is Paul's rule for a church split over meats and days: receive the brother whose conscience differs, because he is the servant of Christ and the brother for whom Christ died. | Romans | 6 linked studies |
| Why God Is Not Finished With Israel | Paul asks it straight out (has God thrown away His own people?) answers it in two words, and then spends three chapters showing why the answer had to be no. | Romans | 29 linked studies |
| Discerning of Spirits | The page walks three concrete tests, confession, Scripture, and fruit, each with its own failure mode, then shows discernment at work in four scenes: the python-spirited girl at Philippi, Micaiah's throne room, and Simon's bondage in Samaria. | 1 Corinthians | 13 linked studies |
| Discipline and Lawsuits | Corinth tolerated an incest case and was proud of itself while it did, and its members were suing one another before pagan courts. | 1 Corinthians | 6 linked studies |
| Food Offered to Idols | Corinth asked whether a believer may eat meat that had been offered to an idol, and Paul answers across chapters 8, 9 and 10. | 1 Corinthians | 12 linked studies |
| God Is Love | Two verses of one chapter state it, and the texts behind it run from Exodus to Romans. | 1 Corinthians | 7 linked studies |
| Order in Worship | In 1 Corinthians 14 Paul orders the exercise of tongues and prophecy in the gathered church by one measure, edification, and closes by commanding both order and liberty: desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. | 1 Corinthians | 8 linked studies |
| Prophecy as a Gift Today | This page defines New Testament congregational prophecy by what it does (edification, exhortation, comfort), then covers how it is weighed by the assembly and why it is in full operation today. | 1 Corinthians | 15 linked studies |
| The Gifts of the Spirit — 1 Corinthians 12–14 | 1 Corinthians 12–14 as the charter: four gift-lists under one Spirit, love as the governing chapter, and the gifts in operation today as Paul regulates them. | 1 Corinthians | 28 linked studies |
| The Lord's Supper | Jesus took bread at a Passover meal and said “this is My body.” Christians have never agreed on what He meant by is. | 1 Corinthians | 33 linked studies |
| The Love Chapter — 1 Corinthians 13 | 1 Corinthians 13 is read in its own setting, Paul's answer to a church ranking itself by spiritual gifts, not a poem written for weddings. | 1 Corinthians | 16 linked studies |
| Words of Knowledge & Wisdom | This page labels the word of wisdom and word of knowledge as readings, not definitions, then shows the biblical exhibits each reading appeals to and the one line Scripture draws with certainty. | 1 Corinthians | 4 linked studies |
| Reconciliation | God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, enemies made friends, the two made one new man, all things whether upon the earth or in the heavens. | 2 Corinthians | 16 linked studies |
| The Grace of Giving | 2 Corinthians 8-9 is Paul's own argument for the Jerusalem collection, built on grace rather than command. | 2 Corinthians | 13 linked studies |
| The Judgment Seat of Christ | The page walks the bema through three passages: 2 Corinthians 5, the builder's test of 1 Corinthians 3, and Romans 14's warning against judging a brother. | 2 Corinthians | 11 linked studies |
| The New Creation | The new creation of Paul's letters, read beside the new heavens of the prophets and the new things of John's vision. | 2 Corinthians | 16 linked studies |
| The Unveiled Face | Paul sets two ministries side by side: the covenant engraved on stone, whose glory faded from Moses' face, and the covenant written by the Spirit on hearts, whose glory remains. | 2 Corinthians | 7 linked studies |
| Unequally Yoked | Paul commands believers not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, asks five questions that admit no answer, and grounds the command in what believers are: a temple of the living God. | 2 Corinthians | 6 linked studies |
| Bearing One Another's Burdens | Galatians closes its argument for freedom with the family duties of the free: restore the overtaken brother gently, and bear one another's burdens, which fulfils the law of Christ. | Galatians | 8 linked studies |
| Hagar and Sarah: the Allegory | Paul reads the story of Abraham's two sons as an allegory of two covenants: Sinai, which bears children unto bondage, and the Jerusalem above, which is free and is our mother. | Galatians | 9 linked studies |
| No Other Gospel | Galatians is the one Pauline church letter with no opening thanksgiving: Paul goes straight from greeting to alarm, because the churches he planted were trading the gospel of grace for a different gospel which is not another. | Galatians | 7 linked studies |
| Self-control and the Brain | Nine studies published from 1998 to 2021 measured self-control as a trait, in daily life, as a limited resource and in the brain. | Galatians | 12 linked studies |
| The Fruit of Self-control | Galatians 5:16 to 26 sets self-control among the fruit of the Spirit inside Paul's teaching on the war between the flesh and the Spirit. | Galatians | 10 linked studies |
| The Fruit of the Spirit | Galatians 5:22–23 names a singular fruit (karpos, not fruits) with nine visible facets. Gifts are distributed; fruit is unified. Every believer bears the whole fruit. The grammar is the theology. | Galatians | 19 linked studies |
| The Law as Tutor | Having proven that God justified Abraham by faith four centuries before Sinai, Paul answers the question his own argument raises: wherefore then the law? | Galatians | 12 linked studies |
| Grieving & Quenching the Spirit | This page separates Paul's two Spirit warnings, grieving in Ephesians 4 and quenching in 1 Thessalonians 5, and gives each its own setting, cause, and remedy. | Ephesians | 5 linked studies |
| In Christ: the Positional-Truth Thread of Ephesians | Ten 'in Christ' clauses stacked in Ephesians' own order, blessed, chosen, redeemed, sealed, seated in the heavenlies, building to the mystery of the one new man. | Ephesians | 10 linked studies |
| Kindness and the Body | Thirteen studies published from 2003 to 2020 measured what kind acts, giving and volunteering do for the well-being, the health and the death rate of the people who do them. | Ephesians | 8 linked studies |
| Saved by Grace Through Faith | Paul sums up the gospel in three verses, which say that salvation comes by grace, is received through faith and not earned by works, and that God made the saved for good works. | Ephesians | 14 linked studies |
| Spiritual Warfare | A defeated enemy, reclaimed ground, and a soldier told to stand — the war behind the war, walked room by room. | Ephesians | 13 linked studies |
| The Armor of God | Roman legionary equipment surveyed by Paul as Christian discipline (Eph 6:10–18). Six pieces of armor and a seventh element — prayer — that is posture, not armor. Every piece carries an OT echo. | Ephesians | 5 linked studies |
| The Fivefold Ministry (Ephesians 4:11-13) | Ephesians 4:11's five gifts, the one-office-or-two grammar question, and the contested center, continuing offices or foundation-era, presented at full strength both ways. | Ephesians | 7 linked studies |
| Contentment and Comparison | Psychologists have measured comparison with others for more than sixty years, and Psalm 73 and 1 Samuel 18 record the envy it breeds. | Philippians | 7 linked studies |
| Joy and the Body | Eight studies published from 2001 to 2019 measured positive emotion, laughter and health, and the largest found no direct link between happiness and death once earlier health was counted. | Philippians | 6 linked studies |
| Joy in Suffering | What Philippians teaches about rejoicing in the Lord under trial, with the texts that teach it elsewhere in Scripture. | Philippians | 23 linked studies |
| Joy in the Spirit | Paul names joy second in the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22, and in Romans 14:17 he counts joy in the Holy Spirit as part of the kingdom of God. | Philippians | 8 linked studies |
| Put Off, Put On | Ephesians 4:20-32 and Colossians 3:1-17 describe holiness as changing clothes: put off the old man, be renewed, put on the new. | Colossians | 5 linked studies |
| The Protestant Work Ethic | Max Weber published his essay on the Protestant ethic in two articles of 1904 and 1905, and historians and economists have tested it ever since. | Colossians | 8 linked studies |
| The Supremacy of Christ — Colossians 1:15-20 | Six verses, eight times Paul says ALL, Christ as agent, sustainer, head, and fulness of everything that exists. | Colossians | 11 linked studies |
| The Teaching Paul Answered at Colossae | What Colossians 2 tells of the teaching pressed on the church, with three readings of who taught it and the holders of each. | Colossians | 11 linked studies |
| Made Holy | Holiness in the New Testament is a fact about you, a process happening to you, and a command aimed at you: all three, in the same letters, often on the same page. | 1 Thessalonians | 29 linked studies |
| The Rapture — the Blessed Hope and the Four Timings | The promise that Christ returns for His church, and the views on when. | 1 Thessalonians | 29 linked studies |
| The Second Coming | This page gathers the New Testament's return-of-Christ passages: the rider on the white horse, His feet on the Mount of Olives, every eye seeing Him, and the day's justice for the troubled and the troublers. | 1 Thessalonians | 32 linked studies |
| Antichrist, the Word and the Figure | Antichristos appears only in John's letters: many already, one still to come, while the figure itself walks the rest of Scripture as the man of sin, the little horn, the coming prince, and the beast. | 2 Thessalonians | 16 linked studies |
| The Restrainer — 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 | 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7's katechon crux: a neuter force becomes a masculine person one verse later, four identifications presented at full strength, and the pastoral point that stands regardless. | 2 Thessalonians | 7 linked studies |
| Elders and Deacons | Three words, one office: presbyteros, episkopos, poimēn on the same men in Acts 20, the qualification lists side by side, and Phoebe's question held open. | 1 Timothy | 20 linked studies |
| The False Teaching at Ephesus | The doctrine Timothy was sent to stop, read from three of Paul's letters, with the four readings of who taught it. | 1 Timothy | 8 linked studies |
| The Mystery of Godliness — 1 Timothy 3:16 | 1 Timothy 3:16's six-line hymn: one of Christianity's earliest datable creeds, read beside its two sibling Christ-hymns in Philippians 2 and Colossians 1. | 1 Timothy | 8 linked studies |
| Once for All — the Finished Sacrifice | Hebrews' argument as repetition against finality: a countable, endless repetition set against a single, final act. | Hebrews | 21 linked studies |
| Sabbath Rest | The Bible tells the story of the sabbath three times over, and each telling is bigger than the last: God rests at creation, Israel is commanded to rest at Sinai, and Hebrews says neither of those was the real thing. | Hebrews | 35 linked studies |
| The Humanity of Christ | Jesus was fully God and fully man. | Hebrews | 10 linked studies |
| Patience and the Impulse | Six studies published from 1989 to 2018 measured how children and adults wait for a reward and hold back an impulse, and what that predicts in later life. | James | 9 linked studies |
| A Royal Priesthood — 1 Peter 2:4-10 | 1 Peter's living-stones catena: three Old Testament stone texts in six verses, and Sinai's own charter, 'a kingdom of priests,' lifted onto the church. | 1 Peter | 16 linked studies |
| Holiness and Legalism | Mark 7, Matthew 23, Galatians, Colossians, Romans and Titus judge rules people add to God's command and the use of grace as a license to sin. | 1 Peter | 10 linked studies |
| Ready to Give an Answer | Peter tells suffering believers to sanctify Christ as Lord in their hearts, and always be ready to give a reasoned defense for the hope they hold, but never apart from gentleness, respect, and a clear conscience. | 1 Peter | 3 linked studies |
| Shepherd the Flock | In 1 Peter 5:1-4 Peter, calling himself a fellow-elder rather than an apostle, charges church elders to shepherd God's flock willingly and without profit, never lording authority over the people in their charge, but leading by example until the chief Shepherd appears. | 1 Peter | 8 linked studies |
| Suffering as a Christian | The name Christian in Acts and 1 Peter, and what the churches of Asia Minor faced from Nero to Pliny. | 1 Peter | 12 linked studies |
| Partakers of the Divine Nature | One verse of Peter's second letter, read by twelve writers from the second century to the twentieth. | 2 Peter | 10 linked studies |
| The Tests of Life — 1 John's Three Tests | 1 John's three interwoven tests: righteousness, love, belief, cycling and deepening across five chapters to a single assurance. | 1 John | 6 linked studies |
| Those Who Denied Christ Came in the Flesh | The word antichrist occurs in the New Testament only in 1 John and 2 John. | 2 John | 8 linked studies |
| The slave girl with a spirit of divination | Planned in the queue for Acts. | Acts | In preparation |
| the-creeds | Planned in the queue for Acts. | Acts | In preparation |
| the-heresies-answered | Planned in the queue for Acts. | Acts | In preparation |
| Adoption as sons | Planned in the queue for Romans. | Romans | In preparation |
| Adoption: Children of God | Planned in the queue for Romans. | Romans | In preparation |
| Dying and rising with Christ | Planned in the queue for Romans. | Romans | In preparation |
| Glorification | Planned in the queue for Romans. | Romans | In preparation |
| The righteousness of God | Planned in the queue for Romans. | Romans | In preparation |
| What creation makes known | Planned in the queue for Romans. | Romans | In preparation |
| Baptism for the Dead | Planned in the queue for 1 Corinthians. | 1 Corinthians | In preparation |
| Power Made Perfect in Weakness | Planned in the queue for 2 Corinthians. | 2 Corinthians | In preparation |
| The third heaven and Paradise | Planned in the queue for 2 Corinthians. | 2 Corinthians | In preparation |
| Faith, Love and Hope | Planned in the queue for 1 Thessalonians. | 1 Thessalonians | In preparation |
| Spirit, Soul and Body | Planned in the queue for 1 Thessalonians. | 1 Thessalonians | In preparation |
| Godliness | Planned in the queue for 1 Timothy. | 1 Timothy | In preparation |
| The church's list of widows | Planned in the queue for 1 Timothy. | 1 Timothy | In preparation |
| The intercession of Christ | Planned in the queue for Hebrews. | Hebrews | In preparation |
| Living Hope | Planned in the queue for 1 Peter. | 1 Peter | In preparation |
Revelation
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| Armageddon | Megiddo's real military history grounds the name, and Zechariah's older prophecy shows the same gathering-against-Jerusalem pattern centuries earlier. | Revelation | 8 linked studies |
| Babylon the Great | Four historic identity readings for Babylon are named along with who holds each, and the fall of the commercial city is itemized cargo by cargo down to its final, hardest line. | Revelation | 13 linked studies |
| Heaven | A house of many storeys — the three heavens, the throne room, the true tabernacle, and the new earth where God comes down to dwell. | Revelation | 3 linked studies |
| New Heavens and New Earth. Isaiah 65–66 | Isaiah's promise set as facing pages against Revelation's vision, with the honest panel on what ceases in each and what does not. | Revelation | 19 linked studies |
| The 144,000 | This page walks Revelation's sealing scene section by section: the pause in judgment, the register's three oddities, who the 144,000 are, and their reappearance on Mount Zion, giving both classic readings their own case. | Revelation | 7 linked studies |
| The Beast and the False Prophet | A composite chart shows how Daniel's four empires fuse into the sea beast of Revelation 13, and the healed wound is read as the one thing the kingdom of darkness has never been able to counterfeit on its own. | Revelation | 11 linked studies |
| The Great White Throne | This page walks through Revelation 20:11-15 verse by verse: the fleeing universe, the books opened, death and hades emptied, and the one name that changes the verdict. | Revelation | 12 linked studies |
| The Lake of Fire and the Second Death | Revelation drives every condemned power into one basin — and names what it empties into twice, so it cannot be missed. | Revelation | 10 linked studies |
| The Mark of the Beast and 666 | This page sticks to what Revelation 13:16-18 actually says about the mark and the number 666, explains how ancient gematria worked, and names the Nero reading and the church's historic caution against guessing: without joining the parlor game of matching it to current events. | Revelation | 9 linked studies |
| The Marriage Supper of the Lamb | This page walks Revelation 19:6-9's wedding scene after Babylon's fall: the four Alleluias, the fine linen granted to the bride, and the ancient betrothal pattern behind it. | Revelation | 14 linked studies |
| The Millennial Kingdom | Six sections work through the kingdom in order: the King's reign, the feast the nations keep, the changed but not erased curse, and the one rebellion that closes the age. | Revelation | 11 linked studies |
| The Millennium — Revelation 20 | Revelation 20 laid out as data first, six mentions, two resurrections, a binding and a loosing, then three readings side by side. | Revelation | 19 linked studies |
| The Seals, Trumpets and Bowls | This page traces the three sevens from the scroll only the Lamb can open through the seventh bowl's 'it is done,' and lays out the telescoping and recapitulation readings side by side with their historic holders. | Revelation | 15 linked studies |
| The Throne Room | One seat of God, shown to four seers across eight centuries — four sustained visions of the same room. | Revelation | 6 linked studies |
| The Two Resurrections | This page traces the two-resurrections pattern from Daniel 12:2 through John 5:28-29 to Revelation 20, and quotes both the premillennial and Augustinian readings of the thousand years at full strength. | Revelation | 11 linked studies |
| The Two Witnesses | This page walks Revelation 11:3-13 through the two witnesses' ministry, the Zechariah imagery behind their two olive trees, the centuries-old debate over who they are, and their death and rising. | Revelation | 12 linked studies |
| The Woman and the Dragon | Revelation 12 tells one story in three scenes: a woman about to give birth, a dragon waiting to devour her child, and a war that moves from heaven to earth when the dragon fails. | Revelation | 8 linked studies |
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