Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 17:1-24 — By Chuck SmithLet's turn to the First Kings, chapter seventeen.The seventeenth chapter of First Kings introduces us now to a very interesting character, Elijah the Tishbite, whatever Tishbite means. Now Elijah came from the area of Gilead, which you'd

Job 9:1-35 — Chapter 9 So Job answers him and he said, I know it is true ( Job 9:1-2 ): What? That God is fair. That God is just. Now that is something that we need to all know. That is true. God is righteous. God is just. Though the justice of God is often challenged.

Psalms 124:1-8 — Psalms 124:1-8 : If it had not been the LORD who was on our side ( Psalms 124:1 ), And, of course, I think we could all write our own psalm from this point on. If God hadn't been with me, let me tell you, you know. "If it had not been that the LORD

Psalms 45:1-17 — Psalms 45:1-17 The forty-fifth psalm is one of those beautiful psalms that refers to Christ, a Messianic psalm. The glorious king. But in this same psalm is seen the church, the bride of Jesus Christ. And so we have in Psalms 45:1-17 the beautiful

Ezekiel 2:1-10 — Chapter 2 And he said unto me, Son of man ( Ezekiel 2:1 ), Now this is a title that Ezekiel uses quite often. It is a title that Jesus uses in the New Testament concerning Himself. It is a title that was used here for Ezekiel, and quite often the Lord

Micah 5:1-15 — Chapter 5Now in chapter 5 Micah leaves that scene of the future and he comes back to an intermediate scene. Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: and they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the

Malachi 4:1-6 — Chapter 4 So the Lord has promised to spare us from what, and when? The Lord will spare us when His day of judgment comes. Chapter 4, verse Malachi 4:1 : For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all of the proud, yes, and all that

Matthew 3:1-17 — Chapter Three In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea ( Matthew 3:1 ). Now we have the silent years of Christ. We are jumping now from the return to Nazareth to the beginning of His public ministry. There are some

Mark 1:1-45 — Let's turn to Mark's gospel.Mark was a young man when Jesus was crucified, perhaps about twelve years old. So, the gospel that he writes is considered to be the understanding that he received from listening to Peter relate the stories of Jesus Christ.

John 12:1-50 — Chapter 12 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table

John 17:1-26 — Chapter 17 These words spake Jesus, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven ( John 17:1 ), Now He is finished with His disciples and He turns now to the Father. He said, "I am not alone; the Father is with Me." And conscious of the Father, He now offers

John 3:1-36 — Have we got a message for you tonight from the Word of God! John chapter 3 and 4, oh my, how rich! How blessed! There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews ( John 3:1 ). We know a few things about him; we know that he must

John 6:1-71 — Now we have an indeterminate rate of time. Jesus was in Jerusalem when He was saying these things, they were as a result of this blind man...or the lame man, rather, who was healed there at the pool of Bethesda. And the controversy that was stirred

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 — Chapter 2 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God ( 1 Corinthians 2:1 ). Paul didn't come as one of the Corinthian philosophers, trying to stand in the streets and

1 Peter 5:1-14 — Chapter 5 Now the elders [the overseers] which are among you I exhort, because I am also an elder [or an overseer, an older man], and I am a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and I'm also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed ( 1 Peter 5:1

1 John 2:1-11 — Chapter 2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not ( 1 John 2:1 ). Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fellowship with God is sin. In Isaiah 59

1 John 3:1-24 — Chapter 3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God ( 1 John 3:1 ): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you should be called the son of God. What glorious

2 John 1:1-13 — Tonight, we want to look at 2 John and 3 John and the book of Jude, all short little one-chapter epistles. The epistles of 2 John and 3 John were of course, written by the apostle John. A situation existed in the early church of itinerant prophets.

3 John 1:1-14 — -3 JohnSo the third epistle of John is now again, John addresses himself as The elder [the presbyturos] unto the wellbeloved Gaius ( 3 John 1:1 ), Probably not the Gaius mentioned in Paul's epistle to the Corinthians where he was in Corinth, and it

3 John 1:1-15 — Así que la tercera epístola de Juan es ahora nuevamente, Juan se dirige a sí mismo como El anciano [el presbyturos] al amado Gayo ( 3 Juan 1:1 ), Probablemente no el Gayo mencionado en la epístola de Pablo a los Corintios donde estaba en Corinto, y