Featured studies · 128 live, 28 in preparation
Passages and psalms
128 featured studies ask what one passage says, line by line, listed by the part of the canon each one stands in.
What these studies ask
These studies take a chapter, a song or a single teaching and read it line by line. Each stays inside one passage and follows its own movement.
The parts of the canon
- Torah9 live
- History4 live
- Wisdom and Poetry22 live, 9 in preparation
- Prophets8 live, 4 in preparation
- Gospels48 live, 11 in preparation
- Acts and the Letters36 live, 4 in preparation
- The Apocrypha1 live
The passages and psalms on the index of every featured study, 128 studies
Torah
9 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shiloh and the Scepter: Genesis 49:10 | Jacob's blessing on Judah promises his tribe the scepter until Shiloh comes and the nations give him their allegiance. | Genesis | 19 linked studies |
| The Angel Who Redeemed: the Goel of Genesis 48:16 | In this blessing Jacob calls the angel hammal'ak haggo'el, using the Hebrew word for a kinsman who buys back land. | Genesis | 14 linked studies |
| The Blessing of Jacob: Genesis 49 Tribe by Tribe | In the Berean text the phrase the tribes of Israel first appears in Genesis 49, in the sayings Jacob spoke over his sons. | Genesis | 17 linked studies |
| The Gap Reading at Genesis 1:2 | Genesis 1:1 to 2 tells that God created the heavens and the earth and then describes the earth before God's first word. | Genesis | 11 linked studies |
| The Song of the Sea | The song celebrates the LORD's victory over Pharaoh's chariots and army at the sea and names Him the strength and salvation of Israel. | Exodus | 14 linked studies |
| Be Holy, Because I Am Holy | Leviticus gives Israel the command five times, in chapters 11, 19 and 20, and Peter quotes it to the churches of Asia Minor. | Leviticus | 21 linked studies |
| The Priestly Blessing | The LORD's name stands in each of the three lines of this blessing. | Leviticus | 13 linked studies |
| Hanged on a tree | The law limits the display of an executed criminal to one day and gives God's curse as the reason. | Deuteronomy | 10 linked studies |
| The Song of Moses | The Song calls heaven and earth to hear how the Rock kept faith with Israel, how Israel forsook Him, and how He will judge and then have compassion on His people. | Deuteronomy | 12 linked studies |
History
4 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Be Strong and Courageous | The first chapter of Joshua gives the LORD's charge to Israel's new leader and the answer of the people. | Joshua | 13 linked studies |
| Hannah's Prayer: 1 Samuel 2:1-10 | Hannah's song in 1 Samuel 2:1-10 opens on her own answered prayer and moves, stanza by stanza, to God's justice across all creation: the mighty broken, the poor raised from the dust, and a final line naming God's Anointed while Israel had no king at all. | 1 Samuel | 8 linked studies |
| If You Love Me, You Will Keep My Commandments | Jesus spoke John 14:15 to 24 to the eleven at supper on the night He was betrayed. | 1 Samuel | 9 linked studies |
| Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice | Samuel told King Saul that the LORD had rejected him as king because he kept back what God had told him to destroy. | 1 Samuel | 10 linked studies |
Wisdom and Poetry
22 live, 9 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Retribution Teaching and Its Limits | A study of Job 4 and Job 42 beside the Law, the Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Luke 13 and John 9, with the readings of the rabbis and the church. | Job | 11 linked studies |
| David's Life in the Psalms: the thirteen historical titles | Thirteen psalms whose titles name an event in David's life, each set beside the chapter in Samuel that tells it, in the order he lived them. | Psalms | 11 linked studies |
| Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving | Psalm 100 and Leviticus 7 show Israel's thanks both as a song of worship and as an offering eaten at the sanctuary. | Psalms | 7 linked studies |
| In All Circumstances | Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians 5:18 to a church that had received the message in great suffering, and Philippians 4:6 from chains. | Psalms | 12 linked studies |
| Overcome Evil with Good | Paul tells the church at Rome to repay no one evil for evil, to feed a hungry enemy, and to overcome evil with good. | Psalms | 9 linked studies |
| Praying the Hard Psalms — the Imprecatory Problem | The cursing psalms put on the table unedited, every defence given its full strength and its limits, and the church's own record of misuse. | Psalms | 5 linked studies |
| Thanks for Who He Is | Two psalms of Israel's worship praise the LORD for His character first and for His deeds second. | Psalms | 8 linked studies |
| The Acrostic Psalms | Nine psalms walk the Hebrew alphabet from aleph to taw, and every one but Psalm 119 has a gap, a doubling or a line standing outside the scheme. | Psalms | 9 linked studies |
| The Hallel: Psalms 113 to 118 | Psalms 113 to 118, the six sung at Passover and the pilgrim feasts, and the hymn Jesus sang with his disciples before Gethsemane. | Psalms | 5 linked studies |
| The Imprecatory Psalms | Psalms 35, 69, 109 and 137 ask God to act against an enemy. The four with their occasions, the readings the church has given them, and the apostles' own use of two of them. | Psalms | 7 linked studies |
| The Lament Form in the Psalter | Psalms 6, 13, 22, 44 and 88 show where a lament turns from complaint to trust, and where it never turns. | Psalms | 10 linked studies |
| The Lord Is My Shepherd — Psalm 23 | Six verses walked as a road through five terrains, and the shepherd-thread that runs from Psalm 23 to the Good Shepherd of John 10. | Psalms | 13 linked studies |
| The Penitential Psalms | Seven psalms read together as one set since at least the sixth century, each walking the same road from trouble owned to confession made to pardon received. | Psalms | 13 linked studies |
| The Shepherd's Life — Psalm 23 | Psalm 23 is built out of a working trade. What a shepherd in Judah did with a rod, a staff, a fold and a water source, verse by verse. | Psalms | 7 linked studies |
| The Songs of Ascents: Psalms 120 to 134 | Fifteen short psalms carried up the road to Jerusalem, a stair that climbs five times from distress through trust to blessing. | Psalms | 4 linked studies |
| The Two Gates — Psalms 1 and 2 | Psalms 1 and 2 are one gate in two leaves. | Psalms | 6 linked studies |
| The Two Ways — Psalm 1 | The gate of the Psalter: a tree planted by streams of water set against chaff the wind drives away. | Psalms | 7 linked studies |
| Who May Dwell on Your Holy Mountain? | Psalm 15 puts a question to the LORD in its first verse and answers it in the four verses that follow. | Psalms | 7 linked studies |
| You Are Good, and You Do What Is Good | The Tet stanza of Psalm 119, verses 65 to 72, praises the LORD as good, and Psalm 34 calls its hearers to taste and see His goodness. | Psalms | 8 linked studies |
| The Tongue — Death and Life in Proverbs | Proverbs' speech-ethics kept as a ledger: the healing tongue and the burning tongue, with James 3 as the New Testament terminus. | Proverbs | 13 linked studies |
| Hebel: the word the Berean text renders futility | Hebel is the Hebrew word for a breath or vapor, and the Teacher of Ecclesiastes applies it to everything done under the sun. | Ecclesiastes | 4 linked studies |
| Vanity Under the Sun — Ecclesiastes | One Hebrew word, hevel, widening from wisdom to pleasure to a life's whole labor, and what escapes the verdict. | Ecclesiastes | 5 linked studies |
| None is righteous: Psalm 14 and Romans 3 | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| Psalm 104 and the order of Genesis 1 | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| psalm-119 | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| The final Hallel | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| The five books of the Psalter and their seams | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| The hymns of Revelation | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| The pierced hands and feet | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| The psalm of the day in the Temple | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
| What man is | Planned in the queue for Psalms. | Psalms | In preparation |
Prophets
8 live, 4 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faithful in Very Little | In Luke 16 Jesus draws a rule about trust from a parable about a dishonest manager. | Lamentations | 3 linked studies |
| The Qinah, the Rhythm of the Hebrew Lament | Five poems over fallen Jerusalem, four of them set in the order of the Hebrew letters. | Lamentations | 7 linked studies |
| Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant | In the parable of the talents the master praises two servants as good and faithful and condemns the one who buried his talent. | Lamentations | 3 linked studies |
| Joel 2:28-32 in Acts 2 | Peter quoted Joel's promise of the Spirit to explain what the crowd in Jerusalem saw and heard at Pentecost. | Joel | 9 linked studies |
| Amos and the Courts at the Gate | Amos 5 is a funeral lament over Israel that names the sins of its court at the city gate. | Micah | 7 linked studies |
| Just Weights | Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Proverbs and four prophets treat the weight and the measure of the market as matters of justice. | Micah | 6 linked studies |
| The Ruler from Bethlehem | The verse the chief priests and scribes quoted when Herod asked them where the Christ was to be born. | Micah | 14 linked studies |
| To Act Justly, to Love Mercy, and to Walk Humbly | In Micah 6 the LORD brings a case against His people, a worshipper asks what offering will please Him, and the prophet answers with three requirements. | Micah | 10 linked studies |
| Swords into plowshares: the oracle Isaiah and Micah share | Planned in the queue for Isaiah. | Isaiah | In preparation |
| The lament of Isaiah 63:7 to 64:12 | Planned in the queue for Isaiah. | Isaiah | In preparation |
| The rich man's tomb of Isaiah 53:9 | Planned in the queue for Isaiah. | Isaiah | In preparation |
| The throne names of Isaiah 9:6 | Planned in the queue for Isaiah. | Isaiah | In preparation |
Gospels
48 live, 11 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath | In 1 Samuel 25 Abigail met David and his armed men on their way to Nabal's house, and her words turned them back. | Matthew | 9 linked studies |
| Anger and Murder of the Heart | This page traces the first of Jesus's six antitheses, tracking the sixth commandment from the hand back to the heart, through a rising ladder of judgment, council, and Gehenna. | Matthew | 15 linked studies |
| Ask, Seek, Knock | A crescendo-stair visual and the underlying Greek grammar show why these three verbs describe an ongoing posture, not a single request. | Matthew | 9 linked studies |
| Blessed Are the Meek | Jesus promised in the Sermon on the Mount that the meek will inherit the earth, in the words of Psalm 37. | Matthew | 10 linked studies |
| Do Not Worry | An observatory exhibit lays out the argument from the greater in specimen form, and the page clears up the KJV's take no thought phrase and shows this is a command against anxiety, not against work or planning. | Matthew | 14 linked studies |
| Fasting, What Jesus Taught | Matthew 6:16-18 closes the Sermon's triad of hidden righteousness, giving, prayer, and fasting, and this page walks the passage through the church's public-domain voices from Wesley to the Didache. | Matthew | 15 linked studies |
| Father, Forgive Them | Luke 23:34 and Acts 7:59 to 60 record the dying prayers of Jesus and of Stephen for the people who killed them. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Gehenna | Gehenna traces the valley behind Jesus's severest word for final loss: its history of child sacrifice and desecration, the threefold better-maimed-than-whole saying, and the fear-God passage that pairs it with sparrows and hairs. | Matthew | 9 linked studies |
| Giving in Secret | Matthew 6:1-4 assumes giving and corrects only its audience, and this page walks the passage through a reward ledger, the commercial term behind 'have their reward,' and nine public-domain voices. | Matthew | 15 linked studies |
| It Is Written | This page follows Jesus quoting Deuteronomy three times against the tempter in the wilderness, then the same 'it is written' reach whenever Scripture needed defending elsewhere in His ministry. | Matthew | 9 linked studies |
| Judge Not | The page works through Matthew 7:1-5 verse by verse, then draws the beam and the mote at the scale the text intends and answers the most common misreading of the passage. | Matthew | 7 linked studies |
| Known by Their Fruit | This page studies Matthew 7:15-20, where Jesus gives one test for false prophets: not their claims but their fruit over time. | Matthew | 6 linked studies |
| Lord of the Sabbath | This page walks both sabbath controversies in Matthew 12: the disciples plucking grain and the healing of the withered hand, along with the three greater-than sayings later in the same chapter. | Matthew | 12 linked studies |
| Love Your Enemies | This page walks the sixth and last of the Sermon on the Mount's 'you have heard, but I say' teachings, where Jesus commands active love toward hostile people rather than mere non-retaliation. | Matthew | 28 linked studies |
| Lust and Adultery of the Heart | This page studies Matthew 5:27-30, where Jesus traces the seventh commandment to the deliberate look, then reads the eye and hand sayings that follow as the church has read them for two thousand years: pointed hyperbole, not a call to self-harm. | Matthew | 10 linked studies |
| Oaths. Let Your Yes Be Yes | This page walks Matthew 5:33-37 verse by verse, names the four forbidden oaths, and quotes the church's own commentary across sixteen centuries. | Matthew | 13 linked studies |
| Pearls Before Swine | This page explains what the dogs-and-pigs picture meant as a ritual category in Jewish life, not an ethnic slur, and traces the same discernment through Matthew 10, Acts 13, Proverbs 9, and 2 Peter 2. | Matthew | 4 linked studies |
| Praying in Secret | This page walks Matthew 6:5-8 verse by verse, then corrects a common misreading that treats the passage as a ban on praying in public. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Receiving Children | This page follows two scenes of Jesus with children in his arms, then builds the doctrine he draws around them: receiving, guarding, and the Father's will that none be lost. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Render Unto Caesar | This page walks the coin trap in Mark 12:13-17, then follows the church's oldest reading of the second half of Jesus's answer: that we, not just Caesar's coin, bear an image. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Rewards | This page traces Jesus's reward sayings from a prophet's welcome down to a single cup of cold water, and marks the line between reward and salvation. | Matthew | 12 linked studies |
| Salt and Light | This page walks Matthew 5:13-16 through what salt and light meant in Jesus's world, then follows the two ways each fails: salt losing its taste, light getting hidden. | Matthew | 11 linked studies |
| Seventy Times Seven | This page traces Jesus' answer to Peter from the number itself, back to Lamech's revenge-song in Genesis, and forward through the parable of the unmerciful servant. | Matthew | 18 linked studies |
| The Days of Noah | The page fences the passage first with Jesus's own guardrail against date-setting, then walks the mirrored verbs of Noah's days and gives both readings of one taken, one left without picking a side. | Matthew | 11 linked studies |
| The Eye as the Lamp of the Body | This page reads Matthew 6:22-23 in its placement between two teachings on money, then holds two readings together: the Hebrew idiom of the generous eye and the grasping eye, and the older reading of the eye as the window of the soul. | Matthew | 4 linked studies |
| The Gentleness of Christ | Matthew 11:28 to 30 records the invitation in which Jesus calls the weary and burdened to take His yoke and learn from Him. | Matthew | 12 linked studies |
| The Golden Rule | This page unpacks Matthew 7:12 through six verses that spell out what the rule looks like in practice, then compares it with Hillel's earlier, negative version of the same idea. | Matthew | 15 linked studies |
| The Great Commission — Matthew 28:18–20 | All authority, all nations, all things, always, the four alls of the Commission that closes Matthew's Gospel. | Matthew | 13 linked studies |
| The Greatest Commandment | A lawyer's test question in Matthew 22 and a scribe's honest one in Mark 12 get the same answer from Jesus: the Shema joined to Leviticus 19:18. | Matthew | 12 linked studies |
| The Law Fulfilled | What Jesus meant by fulfilling rather than destroying the law, and how the six sayings after it read the commandments back to the heart they came from. | Matthew | 26 linked studies |
| The Narrow Gate | The page walks Matthew 7:13-14 through the artwork history, the word 'strait' versus 'straight,' and two readings of the gate held together rather than opposed. | Matthew | 9 linked studies |
| The Resurrection and the Sadducees | This page walks the Sadducees' trick question about the resurrection, then follows Jesus's answer through its three moves: diagnosis, correction, and proof. | Matthew | 7 linked studies |
| The Sermon on the Mount | The longest teaching of Jesus in any Gospel — a floorplan you can walk, opening on blessing and ending on a house built to stand. | Matthew | 36 linked studies |
| The Sheep and the Goats | This page walks the scene from the throne to the two sentences, then lays out three readings of who 'the least of these my brethren' are, including the dispensational view, without picking one. | Matthew | 15 linked studies |
| The Two Builders | This page closes the Sermon on the Mount series with Matthew 7:24-27, showing that the wise and foolish builders differ by one word alone: hearing followed by doing, or hearing without it. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Tradition and Commandment | An instrument traces exactly how the Corban vow legally routed a son's support away from his aging parents while leaving Exodus 20:12 technically unrepealed, with Mark's and Matthew's parallel accounts each given full treatment. | Matthew | 8 linked studies |
| Treasure in Heaven | This page walks Matthew 6:19-21 through the church's own readings of earthly loss, heavenly deposit, and where the heart follows, then traces the same claim through Paul, Luke, and James. | Matthew | 12 linked studies |
| Turn the Other Cheek | This page walks Matthew 5:38-42 through the Torah's own limit on retaliation, the five scenes of Jesus's command that go past it, and the commentators who have read each phrase for two thousand years. | Matthew | 14 linked studies |
| Two Masters and Mammon | Matthew | 10 linked studies | |
| Blessed Are the Merciful | The fifth beatitude stands between the blessing on those who hunger and thirst for righteousness and the blessing on the pure in heart. | Luke | 11 linked studies |
| I Saw Satan Fall | This page walks the seventy's triumphant return in Luke 10:17 to 20, the three readings of what Jesus saw when 'Satan fell like lightning,' and His warning that a name written in heaven matters more than power over demons. | Luke | 9 linked studies |
| The Compassion of Jesus | The Greek verb splanchnizomai, to be moved with compassion, stands twelve times in the Gospels, all of them in Matthew, Mark and Luke. | Luke | 9 linked studies |
| Blessed Are the Peacemakers | Matthew 5:9 is the seventh of the eight blessings with which Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount. | John | 10 linked studies |
| Moses Wrote of Me | Jesus claims three times, each time wider, that the Old Testament is about him: to the Jerusalem authorities that Moses wrote of him, on the Emmaus road that Moses and the prophets do, and to the disciples that the Law, Prophets, and Psalms together do. | John | 11 linked studies |
| My Peace I Give to You | Jesus spoke these words to His disciples on the night before His death, in the discourse that John records in chapters 14 to 16. | John | 9 linked studies |
| The Peace That Surpasses All Understanding | The passage closes the body of Paul's letter to the Philippians. | John | 11 linked studies |
| The Prayer for Unity | The page walks John 17:20-26 in order: the verse where Jesus prays for every future believer by name of category, the model and limit of being 'one as we are one,' and the stated purpose of that unity, that the world would believe. | John | 11 linked studies |
| The Prologue, the Word Made Flesh, John 1:1–18 | Eighteen verses that state the whole Gospel in advance, ending in the scandal: the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. | John | 9 linked studies |
| The Olivet Discourse | Planned in the queue for Matthew. | Matthew | In preparation |
| The six contrasts of the Sermon on the Mount | Planned in the queue for Matthew. | Matthew | In preparation |
| The unforgiving servant | Planned in the queue for Matthew. | Matthew | In preparation |
| The workers in the vineyard | Planned in the queue for Matthew. | Matthew | In preparation |
| The great banquet in Luke 14 | Planned in the queue for Luke. | Luke | In preparation |
| The parable of the sower | Planned in the queue for Luke. | Luke | In preparation |
| The persistent widow and the unjust judge | Planned in the queue for Luke. | Luke | In preparation |
| The rich man and Lazarus | Planned in the queue for Luke. | Luke | In preparation |
| The Sermon on the Plain | Planned in the queue for Luke. | Luke | In preparation |
| The shrewd manager | Planned in the queue for Luke. | Luke | In preparation |
| Caiaphas's Prophecy | Planned in the queue for John. | John | In preparation |
Acts and the Letters
36 live, 4 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Living Hope | Peter's first letter opens with a blessing of God that names three gifts and then turns to the trials of its readers. | Romans | 9 linked studies |
| Hope Against Hope | Paul wrote these four verses near the end of Romans 4, in his letter to the church at Rome. | Romans | 5 linked studies |
| Hope That Does Not Disappoint | The five verses open the fifth chapter of Paul's letter to the church at Rome and follow his account of Abraham's faith. | Romans | 5 linked studies |
| The Anchor of the Soul | The passage ends the sixth chapter of Hebrews, after a warning against falling away, and leads into the letter's teaching on the priesthood of Jesus. | Romans | 6 linked studies |
| Love Is Patient | Paul describes love in fifteen statements of what it does and does not do, written to a divided church at Corinth. | 1 Corinthians | 8 linked studies |
| The Resurrection Chapter — 1 Corinthians 15 | The earliest written resurrection-testimony in the New Testament, the reductio that runs from 'if Christ is not raised' to 'but now hath Christ been raised.' | 1 Corinthians | 18 linked studies |
| Paul's Thorn | In 2 Corinthians 12:1 to 10 Paul tells of a vision he was given and of the thorn that came after it. | 2 Corinthians | 7 linked studies |
| The Generous Will Prosper | The proverb stands in Solomon's collection, and its Hebrew turns on words for scattering, blessing and watering. | 2 Corinthians | 9 linked studies |
| I Discipline My Body | In 1 Corinthians 9:24 to 27 Paul compares his own life to a runner's race and a boxer's fight, writing to the church at Corinth. | Galatians | 13 linked studies |
| Be Kind to One Another | Ephesians 4:31 to 32 and Colossians 3:12 to 14 are two commands of Paul, to the churches of Ephesus and Colossae, on the conduct of believers toward one another. | Ephesians | 9 linked studies |
| The Kindness of God Leads to Repentance | Romans 2:4 and Titus 3:4 to 7 are two statements by Paul about God's kindness, in his letter to the church in Rome and his letter to Titus, whom he had left in Crete. | Ephesians | 8 linked studies |
| Godliness with Contentment | Paul wrote these lines to Timothy at Ephesus, between a warning about false teachers and a charge to the rich. | Philippians | 11 linked studies |
| He Humbled Himself | Philippians 2:1 to 11 joins Paul's call to count others above oneself with the story of the Son's descent and exaltation. | Philippians | 10 linked studies |
| Learning Contentment | Philippians 4:10 to 20 stands near the end of the letter, before Paul's last greetings. | Philippians | 10 linked studies |
| Pride Goes Before a Fall | Proverbs says that pride goes before destruction, and Daniel 4 tells how the king of Babylon was brought low until he praised the King of heaven. | Philippians | 10 linked studies |
| Rejoice in the Lord Always | Paul wrote this command to the church he had founded at Philippi while he was in chains for Christ. | Philippians | 8 linked studies |
| The Joy of the LORD Is Your Strength | Nehemiah spoke these words at the Water Gate in Jerusalem, on a holy day after the city's wall had been rebuilt. | Philippians | 9 linked studies |
| The Joy Set Before Him | Hebrews 12:2 is the one verse in the Bible that speaks of a joy set before Jesus when He endured the cross. | Philippians | 12 linked studies |
| The Mind of Christ — Philippians 2:5–11 | The hymn's own V-shape: descent to the death of the cross, then exaltation to the name above every name, and the mind Paul commands the church to share. | Philippians | 13 linked studies |
| You Shall Not Covet | Exodus 20:17 is the last of the ten words God spoke at Sinai, and Deuteronomy 5:21 repeats it. | Philippians | 14 linked studies |
| Doing the Will of God from Your Heart | Paul asks Christian slaves to serve their earthly masters as they would serve Christ, and he sets their masters under the same Lord. | Colossians | 10 linked studies |
| Six Days You Shall Labor | Exodus 34:21 sets six days of labor beside a seventh of rest, and Deuteronomy 5:12 to 15 extends that rest to the servants of the house. | Colossians | 7 linked studies |
| The Sluggard in Proverbs | Proverbs gathers its warnings against laziness around one figure, the slacker, and sets him against the ant and the diligent. | Colossians | 7 linked studies |
| The Trustworthy Sayings | Five short sayings Paul vouches for, from 1 Timothy 1:15 to Titus 3:8. | 1 Timothy | 8 linked studies |
| All Scripture Is God-Breathed | 2 Timothy 3:16-17: theopneustos, the four profits, and what the verse does and does not settle about the canon. | 2 Timothy | 14 linked studies |
| Be Faithful Even unto Death | Revelation 2:8 to 11 is Christ's letter to the church at Smyrna in the province of Asia. | Hebrews | 7 linked studies |
| Entertaining Angels Unaware | The passage opens the last chapter of Hebrews, after the warning of chapter 12 that God is a consuming fire, and turns the letter to the daily conduct of the church. | Hebrews | 8 linked studies |
| Little Faith and Great Faith | Matthew 8, 14 and 15 record Jesus' verdicts on the faith of a Roman officer, a mother from the region of Tyre and Peter. | Hebrews | 8 linked studies |
| Run with Endurance | The chapter after the roll of the faithful turns to the race its readers must run themselves. | Hebrews | 13 linked studies |
| The Hall of Faith | Hebrews 11 names the men and women of the Old Testament who lived and died by faith in what God had promised. | Hebrews | 27 linked studies |
| The Hall of Faith | Hebrews 11 walks the whole Old Testament as one procession — witness by witness, each name a deed, all of them running toward Jesus. | Hebrews | 11 linked studies |
| Trust in the LORD with All Your Heart | Proverbs 3:5 to 6 asks a son to rest his whole weight on the LORD instead of on his own understanding. | Hebrews | 8 linked studies |
| The Farmer Waits for the Rain | James tells suffering believers to be patient until the Lord comes, as a farmer waits for the fall and spring rains. | James | 8 linked studies |
| Waiting on the Lord | Isaiah promises that those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength, and Psalm 27 closes by calling the reader to wait for Him with courage. | James | 11 linked studies |
| Blessed Are the Pure in Heart | The sixth beatitude of the Sermon on the Mount stands between the blessing on the merciful and the blessing on the peacemakers. | 1 Peter | 11 linked studies |
| Watchfulness | This page walks Matthew 24:42-25:13 through three of Jesus's own pictures for readiness: the thief and the two servants, then the ten virgins where all ten sleep and only the oil decides. | 1 Peter | 11 linked studies |
| The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking but righteousness, peace and joy (Romans 14:17) | Planned in the queue for Romans. | Romans | In preparation |
| Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances (1 Thessalonians 5:16 to 18) | Planned in the queue for 1 Thessalonians. | 1 Thessalonians | In preparation |
| Heb 1–2 (Son superior to angels) | Planned in the queue for Hebrews. | Hebrews | In preparation |
| The roll of faith | Planned in the queue for Hebrews. | Hebrews | In preparation |
The Apocrypha
1 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | This page walks Ben Sira's portrait gallery of Israel's story in Sirach 44-50 and compares its form to the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11. | Apocrypha | 5 linked studies |
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