About This Course
How to Read and Study the Bible is Foundation Course #4 in TrueWords+ Foundations. It is built to move a believer from simply reading verses to understanding how Scripture fits together, how context controls meaning, how the old covenant and new covenant relate, and how to compare Scripture with Scripture without depending on guesswork.
What you will learn
- Why Bible study is work worth doing and how to approach Scripture as a careful workman.
- How the sixty-six books fit together and why chapter and verse numbers are useful navigation aids rather than inspired thought boundaries.
- How to establish context by identifying the speaker, audience, occasion, subject, and surrounding argument.
- How to distinguish the old covenant and new covenant without teaching different methods of salvation.
- How Romans 4 and Galatians 3 use Abraham and David to prove one salvation by faith across biblical history.
- How to compare Scripture with Scripture and build strong cross-reference chains.
- How to understand older KJV English such as conversation, prevent, and let from context.
- How KJV singular and plural pronouns can expose details many readers miss.
- How small words such as therefore, for, but, and if reveal the logic of a passage.
- How to trace New Testament quotations back into the Old Testament and compare parallel passages.
- How to handle difficult passages without allowing one unclear phrase to overturn many clear Scriptures.
- How to recognize figures, symbols, types, shadows, and patterns without inventing hidden meanings.
- Why several famous verses are commonly quoted without their actual context.
- Seven practical study methods you can use for books, passages, doctrines, topics, words, characters, and cross-Bible tracing.
- How to use concordances, maps, dictionaries, cross-references, commentaries, and Bible software without outsourcing your thinking.
- A repeatable study workflow: Read → Observe → Context → Compare → Conclude → Apply → Teach.
- How to build a lifetime Bible-reading, memorization, meditation, and study habit.
- A full capstone workshop through Romans 4:1–8 using the methods learned in the course.
Why this course matters
The goal is not to make you dependent on TrueWords+. The goal is to make you a stronger Bible student who loves learning and is equipped to go deeper. Future doctrine courses, Bible-book courses, prophecy studies, ministry training, and advanced Christian-growth courses will build on these skills.
All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. The course is free and publicly readable. A My TWBC account saves lesson progress, final-exam results, the completion certificate, and the TrueWords+ Course Ribbon.
If this course awards My TWBC points, they are awarded only after the course completion requirements are met.