Bible Studies
Passage Studies
Stay With the Passage Long Enough to Hear It.
How We Will Study
Never build an interpretation from an isolated famous verse when the surrounding passage can help answer the question. A sentence may be memorable, but its paragraph, chapter, and argument still get a vote.
Passage Studies will examine the immediate paragraph, author, audience, language, historical setting, quotations and allusions, surrounding argument, and the strongest competing interpretations.
The goal is not to make a difficult passage say less. It is to stay with it long enough to understand what it says, what the evidence supports, and what still requires careful interpretation.
Study Companion Guides
Keep the Evidence in Front of You.
The Study Companion will help you annotate the passage and record observations, context, cross-references, interpretive options, supporting evidence, and your final conclusion.
Passage Studies Library
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Did Paul Tell Women to Be Silent in Church?
1 Corinthians 14:26–40, Prophecy, Questions, Order—and the Two Verses Everyone Quotes
Paul says women should be silent in the churches—but the same letter assumes women pray and prophesy. Read the whole worship-order passage, track all three commands to “be silent,” examine the questions, husbands, “law,” punctuation, manuscript placement, and five major interpretations before deciding what Paul actually prohibited.
What Did Yeshua Mean by “Fulfill” in Matthew 5:17–20?
Abolish, Jot and Tittle, Least Commandments, Greater Righteousness
Before turning one Greek verb into an entire covenant theology, read the four-verse paragraph. Trace abolish, fulfill, the two “until” statements, jot and tittle, least commandments, greater righteousness, and what Yeshua does next in the Sermon on the Mount.
Did Paul Forbid Women From Teaching Men?
1 Timothy 2:8–15, Authenteō, Adam and Eve, Childbearing—and the Passage Behind a Thousand Church Debates
What exactly did Paul restrict in 1 Timothy 2:12? Read the whole paragraph, examine the rare Greek verb authenteō, follow Paul back to Adam and Eve, wrestle with “saved through childbearing,” and test the strongest interpretations before deciding what this passage can—and cannot—prove about women teaching men.
What Does “Wives, Submit to Your Husbands” Actually Mean?
Ephesians 5:21–33, Mutual Submission, Headship, Sacrificial Love—and the Marriage Passage Everyone Thinks They Know
Read the sentence before verse 22. Trace submit, obey, head, Messiah’s self-giving love, one flesh, and the major competing interpretations before deciding what Ephesians 5 actually requires of wives and husbands.
What Did Peter’s Vision Actually Mean?
Acts 10:1–48, Clean and Unclean Animals, Cornelius, Gentiles—and the Vision Everyone Uses to Talk About Food
Peter sees a sheet filled with animals, refuses to eat what he calls common or unclean, and then walks into a Gentile home. Follow the whole story, Peter’s own explanation, Acts 11, and both major readings before deciding what the vision actually proves.
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Topical Studies
Bring the doctrine. Open the Bible. Test it.
Start with a question, doctrine, or teaching you have heard and trace it across Scripture. Topical Studies compare passages, examine competing interpretations, test common claims, and build conclusions from the biblical evidence.
Explore →Word Studies
Slow down. Follow the word through Scripture.
Explore important Hebrew and Greek words in their biblical contexts. Rather than building theology from a dictionary definition or Strong’s number, Word Studies trace how a word is actually used across passages, authors, and the larger biblical story.
Explore →Book Studies
Read the argument from beginning to end.
Work through whole biblical books in context. Follow the author’s argument, audience, structure, repeated themes, historical setting, and connection to the rest of Scripture instead of building doctrine from isolated verses.
Explore →People of the Bible
Meet them inside the story.
Study the people of Scripture as real men and women living inside Yehovah’s unfolding covenant story. Examine their faith, failures, choices, relationships, cultural setting, and role in the larger biblical narrative without flattening them into simple heroes and villains.