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.
Read the guideBeing a woman
Fear the Lord, learn his Word, cultivate wisdom, and serve through faithful deeds.
Read the guideBeing a husband
Hold fast to your wife, love with Christ’s pattern, honor her, and care for your household.
Read the guideBeing a wife
Love and respect your husband, practice faithful submission, and build the household with wisdom.
Read the guideBeing a father
Love your children, take responsibility for their upbringing, and help them grow in the knowledge and ways of the Lord.
Read the guideBeing a mother
Love your children, give them wise instruction and dependable care, and help them learn to trust and follow the Lord.
Read the guideBeing a son or daughter
Honor both parents, receive wise instruction, grow in faithful responsibility, and give practical care as their needs change.
Read the guideHandling money and possessions
Receive God’s gifts thankfully, provide faithfully, deal honestly, and open your hand to others while placing your hope in God.
Read the guideForgiving and making peace
Receive God’s mercy, forgive from the heart, turn from wrongdoing, and work patiently for truthful reconciliation and peace.
Read the guidePrayer and dependence on God
Come to the Father through Christ, ask with faith, give thanks, pray for others, and persevere in trusting his care.
Read the guideRemaining faithful through hardship
Bring your grief to God, depend on Christ, continue doing good, and share in the care and hope of his people.
Read the guideGrowing in wisdom and discernment
Revere God, learn from his Word, receive correction and counsel, examine what you hear, and practice what is good.
Read the guidePracticing self-control
Receive God’s grace, walk by his Spirit, and practice the restraint and faithful action that love requires.
Read the guideFollowing 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.
Read the guideReading, 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.
Read the guideSpeaking truthfully, wisely, and kindly
Listen to understand, tell the truth, choose words that help, and make your commitments dependable.
Read the guideWorking faithfully
Work diligently and honestly, provide and share, treat people justly, and depend on God for the fruit of your labor.
Read the guideBeing 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.
Read the guideBeing a faithful friend
Love steadily, speak truth with care, keep trust, share burdens, and help one another remain faithful to God.
Read the guideLoving your neighbor
Take another person’s good seriously, respond to need with practical mercy, treat people impartially, and extend kindness even to enemies.
Read the guideLiving with humility
Receive God’s mercy and instruction, follow Christ in service, welcome correction, and honor others with the gifts God gives.
Read the guideWorshiping God
Honor God for who he is, come through Jesus Christ, and join praise and thanksgiving with attentive hearing, gathered worship, and faithful service.
Read the guideSharing the gospel
Make Jesus Christ known, explain his death and resurrection, invite repentance and faith, and bear witness with gracious words and faithful conduct.
Read the guideServing 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.
Read the guidePracticing hospitality
Welcome people willingly, attend to their needs, and share food, shelter, attention, and help as an expression of love.
Read the guideCaring 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.
Read the guidePursuing 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.
Read the guideLiving 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.
Read the guidePracticing patience and gentleness
Bear with people in love, listen before answering, give the help they need, and correct with humility and care.
Read the guideLiving faithfully while unmarried
Give yourself to the Lord, pursue holiness, share life with his people, and use your gifts in love.
Read the guidePreparing for marriage
Understand the covenant you would enter, grow in faithfulness to Christ, and prepare to love and care for a spouse.
Read the guideBeing 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.
Read the guideLeading and using authority faithfully
Serve the people entrusted to you, lead by faithful example, judge fairly, and remain answerable to God.
Read the guideReceiving and giving correction
Listen for the truth, turn from what is wrong, and help others grow through patient, honest instruction.
Read the guideUnderstanding 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.
Read the guideUsing 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.
Read the guideLiving 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.
Read the guideFasting and seeking God
Fasting gives bodily expression to humble dependence on God in prayer, repentance, grief, worship, and service.
Read the guideCaring for people who are sick or isolated
Give compassionate attention, meet real needs, seek the church’s prayer, and remain faithful in care.
Read the guideGrieving with hope
Bring sorrow to God, share the burdens of mourners, and rest your hope in Jesus Christ and the resurrection he promises.
Read the guideBeing a grandparent and teaching another generation
Help the next generation know God through Scripture, truthful remembrance, wise instruction, prayer, and a faithful example.
Read the guideGrowing older faithfully
Keep trusting Christ, grow in faithful character, serve with what God gives, receive care, and look toward the resurrection.
Read the guideLiving 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.
Read the guideCaring 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.
Read the guideLiving 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.
Read the guideTrusting 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.
Read the guideRepentance, 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.
Read the guideWalking 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.
Read the guideLiving with sexual purity
Honor Christ with your whole life through faithful desire, sexual holiness, mutual care and a continuing response to his grace.
Read the guideStanding 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.
Read the guideUnderstanding 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.
Read the guideChristian freedom, conscience, and differing convictions
Receive freedom through Christ, form your conscience by his word, and use your choices to love and strengthen others.
Read the guideLiving 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.
Read the guideLiving 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.
Read the guideLearning contentment
Depend on Christ through changing circumstances, receive God’s provision, and pursue godliness with a willing and generous heart.
Read the guideHelping 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.
Read the guideUnderstanding 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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