Abusing Bible Study

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Abusing Bible Study
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel
of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of
sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful
but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in
His law he meditates day and night. Psalm 11,2
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Study Only Fragments

• Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him,
  If you abide in My word, you are My disciples
  indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the
  truth shall make you free. John 831,32

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Study Only Fragments

• Therefore I testify to you this day that I am
  innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not
  shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of
  God. Acts 2026,27

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Study Only Fragments

• Remind them of these things, charging them
  before the Lord not to strive about words to no
  profit, to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent
  to present yourself approved to God, a worker who
  does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
  word of truth.
  2 Timothy 214,15

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Study Only Fragments

• The entirety of Your word is truth, And every
  one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
  
  Psalm 119160
• How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O
  God! How great is the sum of them! Psalm 13917

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Old Testament Must Be Studied

• For whatever things were written before were
  written for our learning, that we through the
  patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have
  hope.
  Romans 154

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Old Testament Must Be Studied

• Now these things became our examples, to the
  intent that we should not lust after evil things
  as they also lusted Now all these things
  happened to them as examples, and they were
  written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
  the ages have come.
  1 Corinthians
  106,11

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Study to Be Seen of Men

• Take heed that you do not do your charitable
  deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise
  you have no reward from your Father in heaven.
  Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not
  sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do
  in the synagogues and in the streets, that they
  may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you,
  they have their reward. But when you do a
  charitable deed, do not let your left hand know
  what your right hand is doing. Matthew 61-3

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By Not Retaining Knowledge

• Because, although they knew God, they did not
  glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became
  futile in their thoughts, and their foolish
  hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they
  became fools. Romans 121,22

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By Not Retaining Knowledge

• For he who lacks these things is shortsighted,
  even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was
  cleansed from his old sins. 2 Peter 19
• But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine,
  and does not do them, will be like a foolish man
  who built his house on the sand and the rain
  descended, the floods came, and the winds blew
  and beat on that house and it fell. And great
  was its fall. Matthew 726,27

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By Believing Studying Is a Means to an End

• But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
  deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer
  of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
  observing his natural face in a mirror for he
  observes himself, goes away, and immediately
  forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks
  into the perfect law of liberty and continues in
  it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of
  the work, this one will be blessed in what he
  does. James 122-25

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By Believing Studying Is a Means to an End

• As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the
  word, that you may grow thereby.1 Peter 22
• But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and
  always be ready to give a defense to everyone who
  asks you a reason for the hope that is in you,
  with meekness and fear. 1 Peter 315

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For Use As a Cover

• For of this sort are those who creep into
  households and make captives of gullible women
  loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
  always learning and never able to come to the
  knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy 36,7
• Humility in the use of our knowledge is a must!

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Abusing Bible Study
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel
of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of
sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful
but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in
His law he meditates day and night. Psalm 11,2