Study A Book
A three-stage method for locking a Bible verse in memory by seeing the whole book first, then zooming in to your chapter, then reading the river of context around it.
Get the big picture — who wrote it, when, why, and what it's about.
Find your target verse on the chapter map to see where it sits in the book.
Read the chapter summaries around your verse to feel the flow of context.
Old Testament
39 booksGenesis
12:2-3 and 50:20
Exodus
3:7-8 and 20:1-17
Leviticus
19:1-2
Numbers
14:33-34
Deuteronomy
6:4-5
Joshua
1:6 and 24:15
Judges
21:25
Ruth
1:16
I Samuel
8:5, 15:22 and 16:7
II Samuel
7:16
I Kings
9:1-9 and 18:21
II Kings
17:13-14
I Chronicles
29:10-11
II Chronicles
7:14
Ezra
1:3 and 7:10
Nehemiah
1:4-11 and 2:18
Esther
4:14-16
Job
1:21
Psalms
23:1 and 46:1
Proverbs
1:7, 9:10 and any five random proverbs from chapters 10-29
Ecclesiastes
1:2 and 12:13
Song of Songs
8:6-7
Isaiah
1:18, 52:13-15 and 53:1-12
Jeremiah
3:12-13 and 31:33
Lamentations
3:22-23
Ezekiel
36:26
Daniel
2:44 and 7:13-14
Hosea
6:6
Joel
2:13-14
Amos
5:24 and 7:7-8
Obadiah
1:13-15 and 1:21
Jonah
4:2
Micah
6:8
Nahum
1:7-8
Habakkuk
2:4
Zephaniah
3:17
Haggai
1:8
Zechariah
9:9-10
Malachi
3:1 and 4:2
New Testament
27 booksMatthew
5:17, 16:6 and 28:18-20
If you have extra time, also read 5:1-29
Mark
1:1 and 10:45
Luke
19:10 and 24:1-12
John
1:1-3, 3:16, 14:6 and 20:31
Acts
1:8 and 2:38
Romans
1:16-17, 3:23, 6:23 and 10:9
I Corinthians
1:10 and 15:3-4
II Corinthians
5:17 and 5:20
Galatians
2:16, 5:1 and 5:22-26
Ephesians
2:8-10 and 6:10-17
Philippians
2:5-11
Colossians
1:15-18
I Thessalonians
4:16-18
II Thessalonians
2:15 and 3:13
I Timothy
1:15, 2:5-6 and 3:15
II Timothy
4:7-8
Titus
2:11-15
Philemon
1:15-16
Hebrews
4:4 and 12:1
James
1:22
I Peter
1:3-5 and 2:9-12
II Peter
1:3-7 and 3:9
I John
1:5-7
II John
1:6
III John
1:8
Jude
1:3 and 1:23-24
Revelation
1:7-8, 21:5 and 22:20-21