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The studies in The Letters, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
The Letters holds 24 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 2 of the ten kinds.
- 23 studies ask what a whole book of the Bible says from end to end.
- 1 study asks what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
The studies by kind
Books of the Bible
One study for each book, with the studies of how the Bible came to us and how its writers wrote. This is the place to begin a book from end to end.
23 studies, 8 as cards, 15 in the register
Hebrews: the Study GuideBetter: seven rungs of superiority, five warnings braided through them, and a High Priest who sat down.
Romans: the Study GuideThe gospel argued to the ground: the seven-movement argument, the Romans Road, justification by faith, and grace reigning to the glory of God.
Galatians: the Study GuidePaul's most urgent letter, defended in three movements: his gospel from Christ not man, justification by faith not works of the law, and freedom lived by the Spirit not license.
1 Corinthians, the Study GuideChrist crucified for a divided church: the report Paul heard, the questions the Corinthians asked, and the resurrection nobody asked about but everything depends on.
1 Peter: the Study GuideA living hope through undeserved suffering: the suffering-to-glory arc that runs through every chapter.
Philippians, the Study GuideA letter written in chains that is about joy, the Christ-hymn's self-emptying and exaltation, and a contentment learned in whatsoever state.
Colossians, the Study GuideChrist supreme over every claim the Colossian error could make against him, the hymn as the letter's engine, driving the polemic, the ethic, and the courier who carries it out.- Ephesians, the Study GuideSeated, walking, standing: the letter's own three-beat architecture, the mystery of one new man, and the Temple Warning Inscription as physical corroboration.
The register: 15 more studies of this kind
- 1 John, the Study GuideThree tests, not one outline: light, love, and truth recur and deepen across five chapters, written so that those who already believe may know they have eternal life.
- 1 Thessalonians, the Study GuideThe model church's faith, love and hope, and a letter that closes every chapter looking for the Lord's return.
- 1 Timothy, the Study GuideGuard the deposit: Paul's charge-and-deposit letter to Timothy at Ephesus, built around the mystery-of-godliness hymn and the three faithful sayings.
- 2 Corinthians, the Study GuidePaul's most autobiographically exposed letter: comfort carried through affliction, glory outshining Moses' veil, and power made perfect in weakness.
- 2 John, the Study GuideTruth and love braided into one thing until a household must decide whether to open its door to a teacher who denies Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh.
- 2 Peter, the Study GuideAn apostle's last testament: grow in the true knowledge of Christ, know the false teachers by their judged precedents, and do not be shaken by the scoffers, the day of the Lord comes as a thief.
- 2 Thessalonians: the Study GuideThe forged-letter crisis and the fixed sequence of the man of sin, the restrainer, and Christ's destroying appearance.
- 2 Timothy, the Study GuidePaul's death-cell testament to Timothy: guard, endure, continue, preach, framed by who stood by him and who turned away.
- 3 John, the Study GuideThe NT's shortest book and sharpest character study: Gaius who walks in truth against Diotrephes who loves the preeminence, he that doeth good is of God.
- James, the Study GuideNine stations where genuine faith is proven, trial to prayer, anchored to the Lord of glory (2:1) and the coming of the Lord (5:7-8).
- Jude, the Study GuideA one-chapter emergency letter that turns from planned pleasantries into a battle-cry, contend for the faith, because the God who judged Israel, the Watchers, and Sodom will judge the wolves inside the fold too.
- Philemon, the Study GuideThe gospel's most private, costly work in one household: Paul appeals rather than commands for a runaway slave, 'put that on mine account.'
- The General EpistlesEight non-Pauline letters — Hebrews to Jude — pressing one charge on scattered churches: endure, and contend for the faith once delivered.
- The Pauline EpistlesThirteen letters from one apostle — read by the occasions that drew them out of him.
- Titus: the Study GuideOrder, adorn, insist: qualified elders against the Cretan error, a household trained by grace between two appearings, and good works as the fruit, never the ground, of salvation.
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register
The register: 1 studies of this kind
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