Bible Paragraph Summary - Hebrews and James

 Give instruction to a wise person and he will become still wiser; teach a righteous person and he will increase his insight.  Proverbs 9:9

My NAS Bible has chapter summary headings for each chapter--sometimes more than one--as you can see in the pictures of Hebrews and James.  See the words in the bolded font?  Apparently not all Bibles have this and since I've used the NAS all of my life, I never knew (or really realized) that other Bibles didn't have these headings!  I like getting a sort of preview of what is going to happen in the words that follow.  I suppose these are included at the discretion of the translator and publisher.

I decided to type these out for every Bible book and chapter so I could easily reference where a particular story or topic was instead of spending a long time searching through the pages for a name or topic to jump out at me.  And what if I am not near a computer or can't whip out my phone to look it up?  (I guess that's the Old School #BibleNerd in me!)  For instance, I wanted to know where the story of Zaccheus was in the Gospels.  I can quickly and easily look through these listings and find that the story of Zaccheus is found in Luke 19.  Success!  And that didn't take long at all.

I've included these sheets in my A5 Bible Reference Binder and I actually have them in a few of my Bible binders so that no matter where I am, I will have access to the information.  I decided to share this information for you, dear reader, in case you are interested in something like this!  It IS #FridayFreebie, after all.  So look for these posts every Friday for a while; I will post the New Testament first then post the Old Testament.  Look for "Friday Freebie" or "Paragraph Summary" in the labels/tags.  Feel free to copy and format them how you will use them.  I think that any Bible study information should not cost anything to anyone and would appreciate you sharing about this content and about my blog with anyone you know would appreciate what is found here.

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HEBREWS

1   God’s Final Word in His Son

2   Give Heed / Earth Subject to Man / Jesus Briefly Humbled

3   Jesus Our High Priest / The Peril of Unbelief

4   The Believer’s Rest

5   The Perfect High Priest

6   The Peril of Falling Away / Better Things for You

7   Melchizedek’s Priesthood Like Christ’s

8   A Better Ministry / A New Covenant

9   The Old and the New

10   One Sacrifice of Christ is Sufficient / A New and Living Way

        Christ or Judgment

11   The Triumph of Faith

12   Jesus, the Example / A Father’s Discipline / Unshaken Kingdom

13   The Changeless Christ / God-pleasing Sacrifices / Benediction

 

 JAMES

1   Testing Your Faith

2   The Sin of Partiality / Faith and Works

3   The Tongue is a Fire / Wisdom from Above

4   Things to Avoid

5   Misuse of Riches / Exhortation