Handbook of Basic Bible Texts

John Jefferson Davis

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780310535423
• Topic: Teología y religión
• Subtopic: Referencia bíblica

This volume provides the complete text of key Scripture passages that form the basis for theological study. The text used is the highly readable and modern New International Version. The verses listed are grouped by the classical categories of systematic theology (e.g., God, Christ, Salvation); on disputed points, verses from which the major theological views derive are given. Footnotes provide clarification and brief commentary on verses as appropriate. This work is intended to assist the theological student who might not take the time to look up the verses cited in systematic theologies, but it will also be useful to anyone seeking to better understand the major themes of Scripture.

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Scripture

Historic Christianity has from the beginning acknowledged the Bible to be the highest authority for faith and practice. Evangelical Christians believe in the verbal inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture: the very words of the original texts, and not merely the general concepts or ideas, were inspired by God, and hence are free from error in their teachings.

“We must make a great difference between God’s Word and the word of man. A man’s word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth . . . for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly; we should, therefore, diligently study God’s Word, and know and assuredly believe that God himself speaks unto us” (Martin Luther, Table Talk, XLIV).

VERBAL INSPIRATION

Ex 4:12–16: “Now go; I [God] will help you [Moses] speak and will teach you what to say.” But Moses said, “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.” Then the LORD’S anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? . . . You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.”¹

Ex 17:14: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely erase the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven.”²

Ex 20:1: And God spoke all these words. . . .

Ex 31:18: When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

Ex 34:27: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”³

Nu 22:38: Balaam replied. “. . . I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”

Nu 23:5: The LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this message.”

Nu 24:12–13: Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell the messengers you sent me, ‘Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD—and I must say only what the LORD says’?”

Nu 24:15–16: “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor . . . the oracle of one who hears the words of God.”⁴

Nu 33:2 [Israel’s wilderness journey]: At the LORD’S command Moses recorded the stages in their journey.⁵

Dt 18:18: “I [God] will raise up for them [Israelites] a prophet like you [Moses] from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.”⁶

Isa 8:1: The LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”⁷

Isa 30:8–9: Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness. These are rebellious people . . . children unwilling to listen to the LORD’S instruction.

Jer 1:9: Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth.”

Jer 5:14: Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.”

Jer 25:13: I [God] will bring upon that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.

Jer 30:1–2: This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.’ ”

Eze 24:1: In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the Lord came to me.⁸

Hab 2:2: Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.”

Mt 4:4: Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”⁹

Mt 22:41–44: While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied. He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’ ? For he says, “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’”¹⁰

Jn 14:26: “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”¹¹

Jn 15:26: “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.”

Jn 16:12–15: “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. . . . the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.”

Ac 4:25: “You [God] spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our Father David: ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain?’ ”¹²

Ro 3:1–2: What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? Much in every way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.¹³

1Co 2:13: This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

1Co 14:37: If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I [Paul] am writing to you is the Lord’s command.¹⁴

2Co 13:2–3: On my return I will not spare those who sinned earlier or any of the others, since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. ¹⁵

1Th 2:13: And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

*2Ti 3:16–17: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for ev...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Scripture
• 2. God
• 3. Creation
• 4. Providence
• 5. Man
• 6. Person of Christ
• 7. Work of Christ
• 8. Salvation and the Christian Life
• 9. The Church
• 10. Sacraments
• 11. Individual Eschatology
• 12. General Eschatology