Estudar a Bíblia
Estudar a Bíblia é mergulhar na mente de Deus. A Palavra é lâmpada para os pés, espada do Espírito e alimento para a alma. O cristão que estuda cresce em sabedoria e maturidade.
A importância do estudo
Os bereanos eram mais nobres porque examinavam as Escrituras diariamente. Estudar a Bíblia é mandamento e privilégio.
But these were the worthier [or the nobler] of them that be at Thessalonica, which received the word with all desire, each day seeking [the] scrip-tures, if these things had them so.
Busily keep [or Take care] to give thyself a proved, praiseable workman to God, without shame, rightly treating the word of truth.
for thou hast known holy letters from thy youth, which may learn thee [or may inform thee] to health, by faith that is in Christ Jesus.
For all scripture inspired of God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to chastise, [for] to learn in rightwiseness,
that the man of God be perfect, learned to all good work[s].
Till I come, take attention to reading, to exhortation and teaching.
Seek ye the scriptures, in which ye guess to have everlasting life; and those it be, that bear witnessing of me.
Meditar e guardar
Não se aparte a lei do Senhor da tua boca. Medita nela de dia e de noite para que cumpras tudo o que nela está escrito.
The book of this law depart not from thy mouth, but thou shalt think therein in days and nights, that thou keep and do all things that be written therein; then thou shalt dress thy way, and thou shalt understand it.
[Nun.] Thy word is a lantern to my feet; and a light to my paths.
[Mem.] Lord, how loved I [or I loved] thy law; all day it is my thinking.
Above mine enemies thou madest me prudent by thy commandment; for it is to me without end.
I understood over all men teaching me; for thy witnessings is my thinking.
[Beth.] In what thing amendeth a young waxing man his way? in keep-ing thy words.
In all mine heart I sought thee; put thou me not away from thy behests.
In mine heart I hid thy speeches; that I do not sin against thee.
Lord, thou art blessed; teach thou me thy justifyings.
In my lips I have pronounced; all the dooms of thy mouth.
I delighted in the way of thy witnessings; as in all riches.
I shall be exercised, either busily occupied, in thy behests; and I shall behold thy ways.
I shall bethink in thy justifyings; I shall not forget thy words.
I shall acknowledge to thee in the dressing [or right ruling] of mine heart; in that that I learned the dooms of thy rightfulnesses [or rightwiseness].
Estudo diligente
Esdras preparou o coração para buscar e ensinar a lei. O estudo exige disciplina, constância e coração aberto.
And in the first day of the first month Ezra began to go up from Babylon, and in the first day of the fifth month he came into Jerusalem, by the good hand, or help, of the God of him.
And Ezra made ready his heart to inquire [or ensearch] the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel the behest and doom of the Lord.
Thou shalt love thy Lord God of all thine heart, and of all thy soul, and of all thy strength.
And these words which I command to thee today, shall be in thine heart;
and thou shalt tell those [or them] to thy sons, and thou shalt think upon them, sitting in thine house, and going in the way, lying down, and rising.
And thou shalt bind those [or them] as a sign in thine hand; and those [or they] shall be, and shall be moved before thine eyes;
and thou shalt write them in the lintel, and in the doorposts of thine house.
Forsooth after that he hath set in the throne of his realm, he shall write to himself, that is, shall make to be written, the deuteronomy, that is, declaration, of this law in a book, and he shall take exemplar of priests of the kin of Levi;
and he shall have it with him, and he shall read it in all the days of his life, that he learn to dread his Lord God, and to keep his words and his ceremonies, that be commanded in the law;
neither his heart be raised into pride on his brethren, neither bow he into the right side, either left side, that he reign long time, he and his sons on Israel.
The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;
to know wisdom and knowing; to understand the words of prudence;
and to take the learning of teach-ing; to take rightfulness [or rightwise-ness], and doom, and equity;
that fellness, or wariness, be given to little children, and knowing and understanding to a young waxing man.
A wise man hearing shall be the wiser; and a man understanding shall hold governance.
He shall perceive a parable, and the expounding; the words of wise men, and the dark figurative speeches of them.
My son, forget thou not my law; and thine heart keep my command-ments.
For they shall set to thee the length of days, and the years of life, and peace.
Hold thou teaching, and forsake [thou] it not; keep thou it, for it is thy life.
For the commandment of God is a lantern, and the law is light, and the blaming of teaching is the way of life;
Proteção e crescimento
Quem ignora a Palavra perece. Toda Escritura é útil — crescei na graça e no conhecimento do nosso Senhor.
My people was still, for it had not knowing; for thou hast put away knowing, I shall put thee away, that thou use not priesthood to me; and for thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, also I shall forget thy sons.
It is to go to the law more rather, and to the witnessing, that if they say not after this word, morrowtide light shall not be to them.
And Jesus answered, and said to them, Whether ye err not therefore, that ye know not [the] scriptures, neither the virtue of God?
For whatever things be written, those be written to our teaching, that by patience and comfort of scriptures we have hope.
Therefore ye, brethren, before-witting keep yourselves, lest ye be deceived [or over-led] by error of unwise men, and fall away from your own firmness.
But wax ye in the grace and the knowing of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Saviour; to him be glory now and into the day of everlastingness. Amen.
Of which health prophets sought [out], and searched into, that prophesied of the grace to coming in you [or the grace to come into you],
and sought which either what manner time the Spirit of Christ signified in them, and before-told those passions that be in Christ, and the latter glories.