How To Find a Scripture in the Bible

It can be difficult to understand the Holy Bible, which contains 66 books within the Old and New Testament.If you have a basic knowledge of how the Bible is organized and practiced, you will be able to quickly find any scriptures you need for any reason.

Step 1: You can learn how the bible is organized.

Book Chapter:Verse is divided into it.The book of John would be the first thing you would look at if you wanted to look up John 3:16.The number before the colon is the chapter in the 3rd chapter.You would find the 16th verse after that.The text usually has small numbers in the verse.The number of the verse that begins each paragraph is what makes some Bibles form into paragraphs.The New Testament of Christian books starts with the four Gospels of Christ written by Christian Jews and is followed by the Old Testament, which contains the "books of Moses" and other ancient prophets' writings.

Step 2: If you look in the back of your Bible, you'll find a Bible concordance which will direct you to a few passages that contain each word.

Step 3: You can find a set of Bible commentary books, as well as a dictionary of bible and Holy Land Atlas of maps, all available at bookstores.

Step 4: If there is a cross reference in your Bible, it may be found in the middle of the page in a very narrow column.

It's a kind of footnotes that list other places you find the same in the Bible.

Step 5: If your Bible has comments about the subject, meaning and/or history of the material in that chapter, look at the bottom of most pages or above the beginning of each chapter.

Step 6: You can find a Bible subject/verses on the internet.

Try to find websites that may have your reference.Sermons, commentary, and discussion pages are some of the things that will be on the site.

Step 7: For God so loved the world is a Bible quote that can be found on the internet.

If you want your chapter and verse location in the Bible, you can use this as a concordance.

Step 8: There are many different translations of the Bible with different versions.

The Internet.