STUDstudy · Biblical Living

Living according to God’s Word

Study God’s Word for your relationships, responsibilities, and life of faith. Each guide explains the biblical teaching, the verses in their context, and how to respond faithfully.

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Being a man

Fear God, receive his Word, grow in character, and carry responsibility faithfully.

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Being a woman

Fear the Lord, learn his Word, cultivate wisdom, and serve through faithful deeds.

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Being a husband

Hold fast to your wife, love with Christ’s pattern, honor her, and care for your household.

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Being a wife

Love and respect your husband, practice faithful submission, and build the household with wisdom.

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Being a father

Love your children, take responsibility for their upbringing, and help them grow in the knowledge and ways of the Lord.

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Being a mother

Love your children, give them wise instruction and dependable care, and help them learn to trust and follow the Lord.

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Being a son or daughter

Honor both parents, receive wise instruction, grow in faithful responsibility, and give practical care as their needs change.

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Handling money and possessions

Receive God’s gifts thankfully, provide faithfully, deal honestly, and open your hand to others while placing your hope in God.

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Forgiving and making peace

Receive God’s mercy, forgive from the heart, turn from wrongdoing, and work patiently for truthful reconciliation and peace.

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Prayer and dependence on God

Come to the Father through Christ, ask with faith, give thanks, pray for others, and persevere in trusting his care.

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Remaining faithful through hardship

Bring your grief to God, depend on Christ, continue doing good, and share in the care and hope of his people.

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Growing in wisdom and discernment

Revere God, learn from his Word, receive correction and counsel, examine what you hear, and practice what is good.

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Practicing self-control

Receive God’s grace, walk by his Spirit, and practice the restraint and faithful action that love requires.

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Following Jesus and living in Christ

Trust Jesus Christ, turn to him in repentance, receive his grace, and continue in the faith, love, and obedience he teaches.

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Reading, understanding, and obeying Scripture

Receive Scripture with faith, attend to what it says in context, ask God for understanding, and carry its teaching into your life.

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Speaking truthfully, wisely, and kindly

Listen to understand, tell the truth, choose words that help, and make your commitments dependable.

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Working faithfully

Work diligently and honestly, provide and share, treat people justly, and depend on God for the fruit of your labor.

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Being part of a church

Gather with Christ’s people to receive his Word, worship, share in baptism and the Lord’s Supper, serve one another, and grow together in faithful love.

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Being a faithful friend

Love steadily, speak truth with care, keep trust, share burdens, and help one another remain faithful to God.

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Loving your neighbor

Take another person’s good seriously, respond to need with practical mercy, treat people impartially, and extend kindness even to enemies.

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Living with humility

Receive God’s mercy and instruction, follow Christ in service, welcome correction, and honor others with the gifts God gives.

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Worshiping God

Honor God for who he is, come through Jesus Christ, and join praise and thanksgiving with attentive hearing, gathered worship, and faithful service.

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Sharing the gospel

Make Jesus Christ known, explain his death and resurrection, invite repentance and faith, and bear witness with gracious words and faithful conduct.

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Serving with the gifts God gives

Receive God’s gifts with gratitude, put them to work in love, and help others grow in faithfulness to Christ.

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Practicing hospitality

Welcome people willingly, attend to their needs, and share food, shelter, attention, and help as an expression of love.

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Caring for the poor and vulnerable

Honor people in need, help sustain their lives, defend them from mistreatment, and share in dependable care with God’s people.

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Pursuing justice and treating people fairly

Hear people fairly, speak truthfully, give what is owed, protect those being wronged, and answer to God for your own conduct.

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Living with gratitude and joy

Remember God’s goodness, thank him for his gifts and salvation, and learn to rejoice in him through worship, love, and hope.

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Practicing patience and gentleness

Bear with people in love, listen before answering, give the help they need, and correct with humility and care.

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Living faithfully while unmarried

Give yourself to the Lord, pursue holiness, share life with his people, and use your gifts in love.

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Preparing for marriage

Understand the covenant you would enter, grow in faithfulness to Christ, and prepare to love and care for a spouse.

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Being a brother or sister

Give your brothers and sisters affection, truthful words, willing help, and a sincere pursuit of peace, with your shared life directed toward the Lord.

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Leading and using authority faithfully

Serve the people entrusted to you, lead by faithful example, judge fairly, and remain answerable to God.

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Receiving and giving correction

Listen for the truth, turn from what is wrong, and help others grow through patient, honest instruction.

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Understanding rest and the Sabbath

Receive rest with gratitude, honor God in worship and work, extend refreshment to others, and hold fast to the rest he promises through Christ.

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Using your time and opportunities faithfully

Receive your days from God, attend to what he calls good, and use the opportunities before you with wisdom, love, and dependence on him.

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Living faithfully in community and public life

Seek your neighbors’ good, pray for rulers, fulfill your public responsibilities, and keep your obedience and worship under God’s authority.

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Fasting and seeking God

Fasting gives bodily expression to humble dependence on God in prayer, repentance, grief, worship, and service.

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Caring for people who are sick or isolated

Give compassionate attention, meet real needs, seek the church’s prayer, and remain faithful in care.

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Grieving with hope

Bring sorrow to God, share the burdens of mourners, and rest your hope in Jesus Christ and the resurrection he promises.

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Being a grandparent and teaching another generation

Help the next generation know God through Scripture, truthful remembrance, wise instruction, prayer, and a faithful example.

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Growing older faithfully

Keep trusting Christ, grow in faithful character, serve with what God gives, receive care, and look toward the resurrection.

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Living faithfully after losing a spouse

Bring your grief to God, receive the care of family and church, and continue in faith, with prayer, service, and any decision about remarriage directed toward Christ.

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Caring for creation and animals

Honor God’s ownership, give creatures attentive care, use the earth’s provision responsibly, and live in hope of his promised renewal.

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Living in hope of Christ’s return

Trust the returning Savior, pursue holiness and love, serve faithfully, and encourage one another with the hope of resurrection and life with him.

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Trusting God through fear and worry

Bring fear honestly to God, trust the Father’s care, seek his kingdom, and give faithful attention to the good before you.

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Repentance, confession, and returning to God

Come honestly to God, turn from sin in faith in Jesus Christ, receive his forgiveness, and follow him in changed conduct and restored fellowship.

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Walking by the Holy Spirit

Receive the Spirit’s gift of new life in Christ, depend on his help, and follow his direction in holiness, love, prayer and service.

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Living with sexual purity

Honor Christ with your whole life through faithful desire, sexual holiness, mutual care and a continuing response to his grace.

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Standing firm against temptation and spiritual opposition

Rely on Christ’s help, receive God’s word, pray watchfully and follow the way of obedience with his people.

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Understanding assurance of salvation

Confidence in belonging to Christ rests on God's truthful promise and Jesus' saving work. Scripture joins that confidence with the Spirit's witness, continuing faith, love, obedience, and a serious response to God's warnings.

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Christian freedom, conscience, and differing convictions

Receive freedom through Christ, form your conscience by his word, and use your choices to love and strengthen others.

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Living faithfully with a spouse who does not share your faith

Honor your existing marriage through faithful love, truthful witness, peace, and hope in God, while understanding household holiness and the passages about a spouse’s departure.

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Living faithfully through illness and continuing weakness

Bring your illness to Christ, seek prayer and care, depend on his grace, and continue in love with hope for the redemption of your body.

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Learning contentment

Depend on Christ through changing circumstances, receive God’s provision, and pursue godliness with a willing and generous heart.

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Helping others grow as disciples

Help another person know Christ, understand and obey his word, share the church’s life, and grow through faithful teaching, example, encouragement, correction, and prayer.

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Understanding marriage, separation, divorce, and remarriage

Honor the enduring marriage covenant, receive Jesus’ teaching on divorce, and distinguish Paul’s directions about separation, departure, and a spouse’s death.

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Follow the teaching back to Scripture.

Read the biblical instructions, their context, and the accounts Scripture records. Each guide includes complete KJV passages grouped for further study. Consulted scholarship and the reasoning behind significant interpretations are linked alongside the teaching.

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