04 - How to Read The Bible Part (3)

Most of the books of the Bible have been divided into chapters and the chapters have
been divided into verses to make it easier to ________________ (use two or three words) in
the Bible.
In the Bible, most of the books have been divided into large parts called
__________________.
In the Bible, the chapters have been divided into small parts called ______________.
The Christmas story begins with the first verse of the second chapter of The Gospel According
to Luke.
To make it shorter, you say that the Christmas story begins with Luke 2:1 (We say, "Luke two,
one").
If you want to read the Christmas story in the Bible, you will look for the book named
______________, then find chapter ________________, and begin reading at verse
__________.
Look up the beginning of the Christmas story in your Bible.
The Bible reference is Luke 2:1. Luke is in the New Testament.
After you find Luke, look for the big number 2. Verse 1 will not have a number, but you know
it is at the beginning of Chapter 2.
The Christmas story in Luke begins : Write the missing word.
"In those __________ a decree went out ..."
Let's look up another Bible reference.
Not all of the Christmas story is found in Luke. Some of it begins with Matthew 1:18.
Find Matthew 1:18 in your Bible.

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First, find the big number 1. Then look down the page until you find verse 18.
You may have to look in the next column or even on the next page before you find the little 18.
Matthew 1:18 begins, "Now the _____________ of Jesus Christ ..."
If you found the verse in Matthew without any trouble, you are getting very good at looking up
Bible references!
In the reference Matthew 1:18
the chapter number is ____
the verse number is ____
But most of the time you will read more than one verse.
Suppose you see a reference like this : Luke 2:1-20
(Say, "Luke two, one through twenty.")
This means that you are to find the book of Luke, Chapter _____, and begin reading at verse
_________.
You keep on reading all the verses on to the end of verse _______.
The hyphen (-) means that you read all the verses from verse ______ through verse _______.
Luke 2:1-20
the number 2 is a ( ) chapter, or
( ) verse

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the number 1 is a ( ) chapter
( ) verse
the number 20 is a ( ) chapter
( ) verse
In the reference Luke 2:1-20
you begin reading at verse 1.
You stop at the ( ) beginning of verse 20, or

( ) end

Now see if you can find the story about Jesus going on a trip when he was twelve years
old.
The reference is Luke 2:41-51.
First, find the Book of _____________, Chapter __________.
After you find the big number 2, be sure you look down the page and in the next column or on
the next page until you find verse 41.
Begin reading at verse 41. Keep on reading until you come to the end of verse ________.
Verse 41 begins, "Now his parents ____________ to Jerusalem ..."
Verse 51 ends with these words : "and his mother kept all these __________ in her heart."
Look in the Book of Matthew for some of Jesus' most famous teachings.
Find : Matthew 5:3-12
Look at these verses in your Bible.
Almost every verse begins with the same word. Write that word in this blank:
___________________
If you wish, you can find a story that Jesus told. The story is called "The Good Samaritan."
The reference is Luke 10:25-37.

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If you do not want to take time to read the story now, turn to the next page.
Sometimes a story begins in one chapter and ends in a following chapter.
The Christmas story in Matthew begins at Matthew 1:18. It ends at Matthew 2:12.
Here us the way the reference is written : Matthew 1:18 through 2:12. You say, "Matthew one,
eighteen, through two, twelve."
This reference means that you find the book of Matthew, Chapter ______, and begin reading
at verse ____________.
You keep on reading to the end of that chapter. You read on in the next chapter (Chapter
________) until you finish verse _________.
In a Bible reference a hyphen is a short line between verse numbers.
The word "through" tells you to go on reading into another chapter.
Both the hyphen and the word "through" tells you to read
( ) none of the verses between the numbers, or
( ) all

The reference Luke 21:37 through 22:1
means that you are to find the book of Luke, Chapter ________, and begin reading at verse
_________.
When you finish that chapter, you keep on reading in Chapter __________ to the end of verse
________.
How about a rest? Check your answers. Remember your bookmark.

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Here is a tricky kind of reference. Look at it carefully.
Luke 2:40, 52 (Notice that comma. That is different!)
(We say, "Luke two, forty and fifty-two.")
The verse numbers in the reference are separated by a comma (,) instead of a hyphen (-).
When you look up this reference you read only verse 40 and verse ______.
You skip all the verses in between.
In the reference Luke 2:40, 52
the comma (,) between the verse numbers means that you
( ) read all the verses between 40 and verse 52, or
( ) skip

Look up Luke 2:40, 52 in your own Bible.
Fill in the missing words in the verses below :
Verse 40 : "And the ___________ grew and became __________, filled with wisdom; and
the favour of God was upon him."
Verse 52 : "And ___________ increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and
___________."
Sometimes you read different groups of verses in one chapter. A comma is also used here
between the groups of verses. The comma tells you which verses to skip.
In the reference 1 John 4:7-8, 11-13 you
( ) skip verses 7-8, or
( ) read

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Sometimes you read verses in more than one chapter in the same book.
A semicolon (;) is used between each set of chapter and verse numbers.
In the reference Amos 1:1; 7:15
(Say "Amos one, one and seven, fifteen.")
fist you read Chapter ______, verse ______, and then you skip to chapter _______,
verse ________ in the same Book of Amos.