Bible Commentaries & Additional Resources
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Welcome to this helpful resource page
For Commentary sets you can choose items in print or save space and go digital. Digital options have good benefits.
A software product originally designed for pastors and Bible college students, is now avail to everyone.
Benefits if you have logos.com you can do fast searches. If you think you would like to connect your studies, Bible, books and more in one location you can search across all of them.
You do need to be cautious about some books offered there, but can ask your pastor or those in your denomination which ones are biblically aligned. You can find reviews for them too.
The below books are also available there. And pretty sure they have an app like kindle to your library for on the go.
*You don't need to use this app software.
Bible study app
A great resource for studying Scripture and it's freeeee.
Commentaries
John MacArthur Bible commentary set ⭐
Highly suggest as your main commentary.
Can find on logos.com and at kindle as well. For print: Search cbd, gracebooks.com, and other places to find best prices. Holiday times typically offer discounts. You can buy one book at a time. Idk about shop pay-split pricing, but look. You never know.
*It does come in hardback print as well. But digital ver like at Logos, allows you to search across them all.
John MacArthur Bible commentary
There is a condensed version of the Bible commentary you can find here at logos, at cbd, kindle, or in print here here here or here
JV McGee Bible Commentary
Has his entire Bible Commentary condensed to 5 volumes. You can buy physical, digital and access the audio.
I loved going through this, as a book set, as a young adult, and I would recommend it. But still highly suggest you stick with all of the sermon messages from GTY.org for commentaries, or the John MacArthur Study Bible, mainly. Because, as of today he has spent 53 years putting together those sermons and materials. And might be the longest running pastor to do so, and have it recorded for the world to access. Plus every message has come from his combined study of the Bible, Bible knowledge, archeology, history, and referencing around 30 Bible commentaries for each sermon message every week. So you are getting very deep information through those sermons. Suggestion: After you exhaust the entire sermon catalog from gty, feel free to go through other commentaries such as JV Mcgee, and others listed here. Or just read these other folks as a additional reference as a means of cross referencing.
Bible gateway - uses
Digital Bible notes
A free service like BibleGateway (web account) let you write notes for every verse. You can drop in a link to a sermon online or to a faq article, notate about a book by a published author, include a sermon quote, insert info about a custom in old times, info about an archeological find, reference a "doctrine", etc. Makes the Cloud Bible a very valuable reference book. Good to reference cloud notes in Church or on the go too, 👉without worrying about losing your important Bible with yrs of research in it (*a pastor I know mistakenly left his Bible on top the car and lost it on the drive home Sunday. It had 4 yrs worth of seminary notes 😱😳😭, and he just graduated).
Using the web cloud version...You can share info easily by quick look up in convos, or screen shot it by text, you can discuss a verse w family or children/teens, and pass it down to your kids and grandkids.
You can bookmark fav verses (for memorzing or reference in talks). And highlight up to 5 colors in the text. Think through & pick what those 5 colors will mean. Examples: blue= God/Trinity/Jesus, orange = warnings, green = believer reminders, yellow = doctrine, Red= ?, Purple = ?
If you use another Bible version there for Evangelism...
Change the colors to be for specific use & add "favorites" for an additional one.
Cloud ones also give you parallel options to compare 2 to 5 versions at same time.
Cheap Bibles are good for beginners or as a daily reading tool, and a pricey study Bible is good as a reference book. Cheap ones can be used to highlight, and reread, before handing it to someone else, then buy another one.
Keeping study Bibles and commentaries "clean" of markings saves you money. Some are $60-300 each. And 5 years from now if you want to sell it you will get top dollar, or if you then decide to highlight certian verses in it or write a note, then you know what is reasonable and useful to do, having utilized other methods first.
You can later transfer any useful notes from cloud to the Study Bible, for most important things to remember. And maybe keep one larger Bible at home in print where you print out the notes info in wordprocessor and slip it into each page of the book where the verse(s) is about. A good memory jogger, and also gem for teens or spouse to peek thru if you use that Bible during daily Family time (short devotion or read thru Scriptures together before bed, after dinner, etc).
You can also save your journal entry to a wordprocessing doc on computer as a back up to the journal. You can also choose this option: 1st read thru Scripture: write in notebook in am & transfer copy to computer at night. 2nd read thru Scripture: add notes to cloud Bible.
Blue Letter Bible.org
Theres a lot of iffy stuff on that site, but i do know the following materials are reputably reliable. These are the free things there I would stick to, and avoid all the rest. There's many iffy and false teachers "out there" and it is best to avoid the rest of what's offered there.
>>>John MacArthur
Made publicly available by the ministry of Grace to You. Including all 66 books of the Holy Bible, this resource offers key insights into the book’s author and setting, theological and historical themes, and literary outline—all of which is presented in an easy-to-read format. An essential resource for understanding a passage’s content.
>>> Ray Comfort
These are many many audio messages Ray has given over the years on Evangelism topics, and are a great help for sharing the gospel, and helping a believer focus rightly along the way.
A collection of over 35 messages from evangelist Ray Comfort. It is our pleasure to offer Ray’s biblical and practical approach to evangelism, which will inspire and equip you to share the Gospel with the lost.
Hells Best Kept Secret
audio video
True & False Conversion
audio video
Related:
>>> J V McGee Thru the Bible commentary.
Audio version of his printed 5 volume set.
You could listen along as you read it digital or in print. Freely. The audio is in Engl & Spanish.
Quick Verse by verse thru the Bible
audio
More Resources at BLB:
Interlinear Bible
Interlinear Bible lets you read the Greek and Hebrew word for word next to the English translation.
Other helpful Resources:
*good study Bibles will have Bible maps
Bible Concordance
A Bible concordance is an alphabetical listings of words and phrases found in the Holy Bible and shows where the terms occur throughout all books of Scripture. With cross-references for verses, concordances make it easy to understand the meaning of terms and the context in which those words are used. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance is the most widely known and popular and includes Greek and Hebrew dictionaries for a better understanding of the original meaning. Unfortunately it has limitations; you can't look up "Jesus" and assume all OT references of him will show up here. It won't.
*usually a good Bible will have some, but it's not exhaustive like here.
*There are about 340,000 cross references in Scripture that identify commonalities between different parts of the Bible—chains of similar themes, words, events, or people. With 30k to 95,000 found in good study Bibles.
Between this cross references and the Concordance tool you can do a pretty good solo study. For looking at
verses by topic this is an
additional resource here.
These dictionary and encyclopedia entries provide useful history and the context for difficult names, places, and phrases in the Bible. They are intended to provide additional insight into the Bible, not to replace it, and can be helpful in understanding the full context of difficult verses and passages.
Devotionals -Free
Devotionals - Fee
*personally Devotionals are not a good way to go for daily time in the Word. Reading Scripture daily is 100% better. But you could read a short devotional on your lunch break & right before bed.
What about books?
Kindle has a lot of books. Be very careful picking those books. See our other resource area [on our site] on books and book review sites.
Audio books are available also and that area of our site can guide you.
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