Proof texting is a way of making the Bible agree with you. You can take two unrelated texts (or more) and make them mean anything. For example.
Matthew 27:5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Luke 10.37 ……Go and do likewise.
Obviously, that is not what is meant. Take those verses in context and the meaning is very different.
The Bible is to be studied in context. Not verses from all over the place. We need to keep our ideas in line with the Bible, not trying to make the Bible agree with our preconceived ideas.
A good idea is to take a passage, and read the verses before and after. Maybe read the whole chapter, or the chapters before and after. Ask yourself. What is the whole section about? Who is speaking? To whom is the person speaking, or writing?
If you look at each passage as a whole, the meaning becomes clearer.
Remember too that the Bible, the scriptures, are the written word of God, and they give testimony to the Incarnate Word of God, the Son, Jesus Christ. It really is all about Jesus.
Do not be fooled into the “here a little, there a little” method. That is actually taken from a curse.
Isaiah 28: 10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the LORD will speak to this people,
12to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Always study in context.
Proof texting is a way of making the Bible agree with you. You can take two unrelated texts (or more) and make them mean anything. For example.
Matthew 27:5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Luke 10.37 ……Go and do likewise.
Obviously, that is not what is meant. Take those verses in context and the meaning is very different.
The Bible is to be studied in context. Not verses from all over the place. We need to keep our ideas in line with the Bible, not trying to make the Bible agree with our preconceived ideas.
A good idea is to take a passage, and read the verses before and after. Maybe read the whole chapter, or the chapters before and after. Ask yourself. What is the whole section about? Who is speaking? To whom is the person speaking, or writing?
If you look at each passage as a whole, the meaning becomes clearer.
Remember too that the Bible, the scriptures, are the written word of God, and they give testimony to the Incarnate Word of God, the Son, Jesus Christ. It really is all about Jesus.
Do not be fooled into the “here a little, there a little” method. That is actually taken from a curse.
Isaiah 28: 10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the LORD will speak to this people,
12to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Always study in context.
Proof texting is a way of making the Bible agree with you. You can take two unrelated texts (or more) and make them mean anything. For example.
Matthew 27:5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Luke 10.37 ……Go and do likewise.
Obviously, that is not what is meant. Take those verses in context and the meaning is very different.
The Bible is to be studied in context. Not verses from all over the place. We need to keep our ideas in line with the Bible, not trying to make the Bible agree with our preconceived ideas.
A good idea is to take a passage, and read the verses before and after. Maybe read the whole chapter, or the chapters before and after. Ask yourself. What is the whole section about? Who is speaking? To whom is the person speaking, or writing?
If you look at each passage as a whole, the meaning becomes clearer.
Remember too that the Bible, the scriptures, are the written word of God, and they give testimony to the Incarnate Word of God, the Son, Jesus Christ. It really is all about Jesus.
Do not be fooled into the “here a little, there a little” method. That is actually taken from a curse.
Isaiah 28: 10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the LORD will speak to this people,
12to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Always study in context.
Proof texting is a way of making the Bible agree with you. You can take two unrelated texts (or more) and make them mean anything. For example.
Matthew 27:5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Luke 10.37 ……Go and do likewise.
Obviously, that is not what is meant. Take those verses in context and the meaning is very different.
The Bible is to be studied in context. Not verses from all over the place. We need to keep our ideas in line with the Bible, not trying to make the Bible agree with our preconceived ideas.
A good idea is to take a passage, and read the verses before and after. Maybe read the whole chapter, or the chapters before and after. Ask yourself. What is the whole section about? Who is speaking? To whom is the person speaking, or writing?
If you look at each passage as a whole, the meaning becomes clearer.
Remember too that the Bible, the scriptures, are the written word of God, and they give testimony to the Incarnate Word of God, the Son, Jesus Christ. It really is all about Jesus.
Do not be fooled into the “here a little, there a little” method. That is actually taken from a curse.
Isaiah 28: 10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the LORD will speak to this people,
12to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Always study in context.
Proof texting is a way of making the Bible agree with you. You can take two unrelated texts (or more) and make them mean anything. For example.
Matthew 27:5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Luke 10.37 ……Go and do likewise.
Obviously, that is not what is meant. Take those verses in context and the meaning is very different.
The Bible is to be studied in context. Not verses from all over the place. We need to keep our ideas in line with the Bible, not trying to make the Bible agree with our preconceived ideas.
A good idea is to take a passage, and read the verses before and after. Maybe read the whole chapter, or the chapters before and after. Ask yourself. What is the whole section about? Who is speaking? To whom is the person speaking, or writing?
If you look at each passage as a whole, the meaning becomes clearer.
Remember too that the Bible, the scriptures, are the written word of God, and they give testimony to the Incarnate Word of God, the Son, Jesus Christ. It really is all about Jesus.
Do not be fooled into the “here a little, there a little” method. That is actually taken from a curse.
Isaiah 28: 10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the LORD will speak to this people,
12to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Always study in context.
Always study in context.
Always study in context.
Always study in context.
Always study in context.
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