Basic principles to help youth who are studying the Bible understand it more effectively and apply it accurately to life and thoughts.

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How to Study the Bible
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Basic principles to help youth who are
studying the Bible understand it more
effectively and apply it accurately to life
and thoughts.
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Five Principles of Bible study
• Ask the right questions.
• Write down what you observe
and discover.
• Apply your discovery to your
life and thoughts.
• Study the Bible systematically.
• Strive to exhaust the passage
you are studying.
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Bible Study Tools in Order of
Importance
• Translation of the Bible
• Concordance
• Dictionary
• Bible Dictionary
• Commentary
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Methodical Bible study
• Pray for the Holy Spirit’s
guidance and insight.
• Make observations by asking
questions.
• Seek answers from the
scripture and then tools in
order of importance.
• Apply the scripture to your life.
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Questions to Ask When Studying
the Bible
• What is the historical setting?
• What is the literary form?
• What are the key words?
• What important grammatical
structure do I observe?
• What is the tense of the verbs?
• Is there something contrasted?
• Is there a paradox?
• Is the passage dependant on a
preceding passage?
• Ask six questions: What? Who?
Where? When? Why? and How?
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Application of a Bible Passage
• Is there a promise to claim?
• Is there a command to obey?
• Is there a sin to confess?
• Is there a teaching to absorb?
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Common Pitfalls of Youth Studying
the Bible
• Looking past the obvious for the
hidden.
• Failure to consider the historical in
rushing to application.
• Narrow vision. (All scripture is true
all the time.)
• Lack of discernment as to what is
cultural and what is eternal.
• Lack of respect for God’s Word.
(God’s Word means what it
means, regardless of our beliefs or
opinions.)
• Superstitious approach to God’s
Word.
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