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How To Study Bible Characters

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God intends for us to benefit from studying all of Scripture which includes the lives of those who have gone before us. Their examples show God at work in the lives of His people as well as what happens when we don’t trust and obey Him.

Tips for Studying Bible Characters

When studying the lives of people in the Bible . . .

do pray.

  • As with any kind of Bible study, you need the Holy Spirit’s help to understand. (1 Cor. 2:9-16)

develop profiles.

  • Look at the whole of their lives and ask how they responded in different situations.
  • Identify character traits. List both strengths and weaknesses.
  • Determine the effects of their backgrounds and environmental influences.

discern the principles.

  • Some of the particulars of their lives may be specific to their situation so you may not be able to literally apply everything to your life.
  • By determining the general principles that come out of this study, you should always find something to apply to your life.

discover the primary Person.

  • The Bible is about God, not Jonah, David, Paul, and all the other Bible characters.
  • The bottom line in doing a character study, then, should be to learn more about the Primary Person, or Primary Character, in the Bible. What can you learn about God as a result of this study?

Also Read: Which Bible Characters to Study

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5 Replies to “How To Study Bible Characters”

  1. reading the bible daily is important in our spiritual growth. Your article has been tremendously helpful and I am grateful so thank you for sharing.

    • Yes, it truly is beneficial to our spiritual growth to regularly and consistently read and reflect on God’s Word. We can approach our study of the Bible in different ways — doing a character study as described in this post, going book by book to read through the entire Bible, or picking certain books or passages to zero in on. As we do, we’ll keep learning and growing in our walk with God.

      • I’m so blessed to have found you’re site! After I was watching a game show called the American Bible Challenge, I became painfully aware of how little I knew and even though I have been reading the Bible for years I was heart stricken to find that although I felt I knew, the show proved just how little I really knew. So I felt that just reading God’s word wasn’t enough, but I must strive to learn more, to go deeper. I prayed this morning for help and here I am! Isn’t it amazing when He answer’s our prayer?

        • Praise God for His answer to prayer, Maggie! It certainly is good to know Bible stories and factual information from Scripture but most important is to know the God behind the Bible characters and truths. What He communicates and how He responds in the various situations let’s us know something about His character. Put all the truths we learn about Him together and we can’t help but acknowledge what a great, great God we have!! As seen in Colossians 1:9-10, it begins with head knowledge but the ultimate goal is to grow into a more intimate knowledge of God which then spurs us on to learn more so we get to know Him even better. We never stop learning and growing. May He indeed help you go deeper with the end result of you knowing Him better!

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