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Genesis to Revelation

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This is a list of the "most important" chapters in the Bible and what they contain. These are the chapters most often referenced, so a good knowledge of the information below will take you a long ways towards knowing how to find passages in your Bible on the spur of the moment.

Genesis

Genesis 1 The Creation

Genesis 2 God makes the Sabbath and marries Adam and Eve

Genesis 3: Satan deceives man

Genesis 4: Cain murders Abel

Genesis 5: The descendants of Adam

Genesis 7: The Great Flood

Genesis 10 Dividing the nations (Shem, Ham, Japheth); Nimrod

Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel

Genesis 12 Abraham – God’s Covenant

Genesis 14 Melchizedek (Heb 7)

Genesis 19: The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 21 Isaac

Genesis 22 Abraham’s trial of faith

Genesis 25 Jacob obtains Birthright

Genesis 37: Joseph sold to Egypt

Genesis 38: Judah and Tamar

Genesis 39: Joseph put in prison

Genesis 40: Joseph interprets the dreams of pharaoh’s butler and baker

Genesis 41: Joseph interprets pharaoh’s dream and is rewarded.

Genesis 42: The sons of Jacob appear before Joseph

Genesis 48 Ephraim & Manasseh named as Israel – great nation & company of nations

Genesis 49 Blessing of 12 Tribes of Israel (also Deut. 33)

Exodus

Exodus 12 & 13 Institution of Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread

Exodus 15 Healing Covenant

Exodus 16 Sabbath (also Deut 5) preparing the day before

Exodus 19 Marriage Covenant

Exodus 20 TEN COMMANDMENTS (Also Deut 5)

Exodus 23 Healing (take away sickness); collections and appearing before the Eternal three seasons in the year (also Ex. 34 & Deut 16)

Exodus 31 My Sabbath …a SIGN (also Ezek 20)

Exodus 34 Collections and appearing before the Eternal three seasons in the year Feast Days

Exodus 35 Sabbath; kindle no fire – building the temple

Leviticus

Leviticus 11 Meats, clean and unclean (also Deut. 14)

Leviticus 23 Feast Days: ALL of them

Leviticus 25 Jubilee year; Sabbathical year

Leviticus 26 Blessing and cursing chapter; four seven-times punishments (also Deut 28)

Leviticus 27 Redemption of tithes

Numbers

Numbers 9 Second Passover instituted; if you could not take the first Passover (also II Chron 30- 31)

Numbers 30 Explains Vows

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 5 Ten Commandments

Deuteronomy 13 Dreamer of Dreams

Deuteronomy 14 Meats, clean and unclean; third tithe (Lev 11)

Deuteronomy 15 Poor people

Deuteronomy 16 Collections and appearing before the Eternal three seasons in the year

Deuteronomy 28 Blessing and Cursing Chapter (Lev. 26)

Deuteronomy 33 Prophetic blessing of Tribes of Israel (also Gen 49)

Joshua

Joshua 5 Passover (the first after coming out of Egypt) kept at Gilgal/ Jericho

II Samuel

II Samuel 12 Adultery (David and Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba) FASTING

II Samuel 13 Fornication (Anmon and Tamar, brother and sister

I Kings

I Kings 12 Revolt of the Ten Tribes of Israel; APPOINTED Feast Days

II Kings

II Kings 1 Ahaziah sick and DIED (called a doctor)

II Kings 2 Elijah is taken up by a whirlwind

II Kings 20 Hezekiah sick unto death, prayed to God, wept sore, and was HEALED (Plus 15 years).

II Chronicles

II Chronicles 16 Asa sick, sought not God, but sought physicians and DIED

II Chronicles 30, 31 SECOND PASSOVER (If you could not take of the first Passover)

II Chronicles 35 Feast Days

Ezra

Ezra Return of house of Judah ONLY (Benjamin, Levi, Judah) to restore the temple, and finally (Ezra 7) the city wall – 457 BC

Nehemiah

Nehemiah 8 Feast of Tabernacles

Nehemiah 10 Feast of Tabernacles

Nehemiah 13 Sabbath: NOT to do business on the Sabbath (buying and selling), (also Jer 17)

Psalms

Psalm 103 Healing: forgives all your sins, heals all your diseases

Proverbs

Proverbs 31 Virtuous woman (also I Pet & I Tim 2)

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 12 The whole duty of man: fear God and keep His commandments

Isaiah

Isaiah 1 Your APPOINTED feast days my soul hates (also Isa 5)

Isaiah 2 Millennium: teach us His ways (also Mic 4)

Isaiah 3 Modern women: children ruling parents

Isaiah 8:20 To the LAW and to the testimony (the Bible): if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them

Isaiah 11 Millennium: children with wild animals

Isaiah 14 Fall of Satan (Ezek 28)

Isaiah 28 Precept upon precept, paragraph upon paragraph, verse upon verse, here a little and there a little – with repetitious lips

Isaiah 47 Daughter of Babylon: false church (also Rev 17)

Isaiah 58 Sabbath: a delight, kept in the Millennium; FASTING (PURPOSE and HOW)

Isaiah 65 White Throne Judgment depicted by the 100 year period; eating swine’s flesh

Isaiah 66 Sabbath: kept in the Millennium; eating swine’s flesh

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 7 No sacrifices on the Feast Days when originally instituted

Jeremiah 10 The Christmas tree

Jeremiah 17 Sabbath: bear no burden on the Sabbath day; the heart is desperately wicked

Jeremiah 23 False prophets; a future exodus

Jeremiah 30 Time of Jacob’s trouble; NO HEALING MEDICINES

Jeremiah 46 IN VAIN shall you use many medicines, for you shall not be cured

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 4 Each day is a year in prophecy fulfilled (also Num 14)

Ezekiel 5 Prophecy by thirds; pestilence and famine, war, captivity

Ezekiel 8 Easter sunrise service

Ezekiel 20 Given them over to statutes that were not good

Ezekiel 28 Fall of Lucifer (Satan)

Ezekiel 34 False prophets

Ezekiel 37 Valley of dry bones: David will be KING over them

Ezekiel 38-39 Gog and Magog: their future position

Ezekiel 40-8 Restoration of Israel (12 tribes) after Christ comes

Daniel

Daniel 1 Daniel refused to pollute himself with the King’s dainties

Daniel 2 Great Image

Daniel 3 Nebuchadnezzar’s image of gold (90 ft); fiery furnace

Daniel 4 Great tree; seven-times punishment

Daniel 5 Handwriting on the wall

Daniel 6 Lion’s den

Daniel 7 Four beasts

Daniel 8 Ram and he-goat

Daniel 9 Seventy weeks prophecy; crucifixion on Wednesday

Daniel 10 Demon’s rule

Daniel 11 Kings of the north and south (prophecy)

Daniel 12 Resurrection of many who sleep into everlasting life or everlasting contempt; words closed up and sealed till the times of the end

Hosea

Hosea 2 Days of Balaam

Hosea 4 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge

Joel

Joel 2 God’s army (of locusts)

Amos

Amos 3 Surely the Eternal God will do nothing but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets

Amos 8 Behold the days come, says the Eternal God, that I will send a FAMINE in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but OF HEARING THE WORDS OF THE ETERNAL

Zechariah

Zechariah 14 Millennium: keeping the Feast of Tabernacles

Matthew

Matthew 4 Jesus tempted (also Luke 4)

Matthew 5: 48 Be(come) ye therefore PERFECT, even as your FATHER which is heaven is perfect

Matthew 5, 6, 7 Sermon on the mount

Matthew 12 Lord of the Sabbath day (also Mark 2); sign of 3 days and 3 nights

Matthew 24 Olivet Prophecy

Matthew 25 Parable of the ten virgins

Matthew 26 The Passover: institution of the bread and wine

Matthew 28 Go ye therefore, and teach all nation, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world

Mark

Mark 1 Sabbath: preach Kingdom of God and Christ (also Luke 4)

Mark 10 Blessing of children; divorce and remarriage

Mark 13 Olivet Prophecy

Mark 16 And He said unto them, God you into all the world, and PREACH the GOSPEL to every creature. And they went forth, and preached EVERYWHERE, THE lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following; healing

Luke

Luke 14 Baptism: count the cost; marriage supper

Luke 16 Lazarus

Luke 19 Parable of the pounds: authority over cities

Luke 21 Prophecy chapter (also Mat. 24 Mark 13)

John

John 3 For God so loved the world; NO MAN has ascended up to heaven

John 4:35 Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest, behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they White already to harvest.

John 5 Temporary healing: SIN NO MORE, LEST a worse thing come upon you; marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which All who are in the GRAVE shall hear His voice, and shall come forth

John 6 Eat Christ’s flesh – these words are Spirit and life

John 7 Feast of Tabernacles observed

John 13 The footwashing service – Judas betrays Christ

John 14 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He who believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and GREATER WORKS THAN THESE shall he do; because I go unto my Father

Acts

Acts 1 Second coming of Christ (also Rev 11 & 19)

Acts 2 Pentecost: coming of he Holy Spirit; healing; shadow of Peter

Acts 6 First Deacons ordained

Acts 7 Martyrdom of Stephen

Acts 8 Simeon Magus; the Ethiopian eunuch

Acts 9 Paul’s conversion

Acts 10 Peter’s vision (sheet of animals)

Acts 11 Baptism of Cornelius: the first-fruits of GENTILE WORLD, Gospel door opened

Acts 12 Easter mentioned (should be translated “Passover”)

Acts 15 Council at Jerusalem

Acts 17 Paul’s custom to keep the Sabbath; Be-re’ans received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched he Scriptures daily, whether those things were so

Acts 18 Feast of Tabernacles: Paul sailed from Ephesus to Jerusalem – saying, I MUST BY ALL MEANS KEEP THIS FEAST; Apollos, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures

Acts 19 Re-baptism; anointed cloths

Acts 20 Days of Unleavened Bread kept 29 years after Christ was crucified; Pentecost: Paul hasted, if it were (humanly) possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost – 30 years after death of Christ

Acts 27 Day of Atonement

Acts 28 Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all who came in unto him, PREACHING THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Romans

Romans 6 Baptism: about the flesh

Romans 8 Baptism: about the flesh

Romans 12 Presenting body of God; gifts of the Spirit (also 1 Cor 12)

I Corinthians

I Cor 1 Division in the church condemned; Is Christ divided?

1 Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth no the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto Him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned

1 Cor 3 Building Character

1 Cor 4:21 What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness:

I Cor 5 Feast of Unleavened Bread: therefore, let is KEEP the Feast; eat not with a disfellowshipped person

1Cor 6 Going to courts (law)

I Cor 7 Marriage (also Eph 5)

1 Cor 8 Meat offered to idols

1 Cor 10 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they (OT) are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world has come

1 Cor 11 Long hair; Passover: let a man examine himself lest he eats and drinks unworthily, and eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body

1 Cor 12 Gifts of the Spirit

1 Cor 13 Love

1 Cor 14 Tongues

1 Cor 15 Resurrection

1 Cor 16 Collection on first day of the week (used by Protestants): Romans 15:28 collection is defined as “fruit”; Pentecost: Paul’s layover at Ephesus, a Gentile city, to KEEP Pentecost

II Corinthians

11 Cor 11 SATAN HIMSELF is transformed into an angel of LIGHT

11 Cor 12 Third heaven mentioned; Paul’s thorn in the flesh

Galatians

Gal 2 Christ is living in us

Gal 4 Observing days, months, times, and years

Gal 5 Two attitudes: WORKS of the flesh and FRUIT of the Spirit

Ephesians

Eph 2 Law of commandments (in ordinances of MEN) done away: has nothing to do with the “ceremonial” law of Moses or the Ten Commandments being annulled

Eph 4 Government in the church (also I Cor 12)

Eph 5 Marriage relation like Christ and the church

Phiippians

Phil 4 V. 19 But my God shall SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEED according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus

Colossians

Col 2 Don’t let any man judge you for keeping the days God made holy!

I Thessalonians

1 Thess 4 Resurrection: DEAD in Christ shall rise first

II Thessalonians

2 Thess 2 Man of sin revealed

I Timothy

1 Tim 3 Qualifications for elders and deacons

II Timothy

2 Tim 3 Perilous last days described; all Scripture inspired

Titus

Titus 1 Qualifications for elders

Hebrews

Heb 4 There remains a KEEPING of the Sabbath for the people of God

Heb 6 Basic doctrines of the church mentioned

Heb 7 Melchizedek

Heb 11 Heroes of Faith

Heb 12 Correction with love

Heb 13 V. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have; for he hath said, I WILL NEVER leave thee, nor FORSAKE THEE; v.8 Jesus Christ same always

James

James 2 Faith without works

James 3 Bridling the tongue

James 4 Cause of war

James 5 Call for the elders for healing

I Peter

I Peter 2 Christ, leaving us an example, that we should follow His steps

I Peter 3 Submissive wives; be ready always with an answer

II Peter

II Peter 1 Partake of divine nature; Christian virtues; no private interpretation of the Scriptures

II Peter 2 False prophets despise government

II Peter 3 Scoffers; Day of Lord soon; heavens dissolved

I John

I John 2 He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments is a LIAR

I John 3 Sin is the transgression of the law v. 4

I John 5 For THIS IS the LOVE OF GOD: that we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: and His commandment are not grievous

II John

II John If there come ANY unto you, and bring not THIS DOCTRINE, Receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed v 10

Jude

Jude 3 Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered; 7 Example of ETERNAL FIRE; 8 ..DISPISE DOMINION, and SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITIES;

Verse 9 MICHAEL rebukes the Devil: THE LORD REBUKE THEE;

Revelation

Rev 2 & 3 Eras of God’s Church

Rev 6 Six seals

Rev 7 The 144,000 (also Rev 14)

Rev 11 Two witnesses

Rev 12 History of the True Church

Rev 12/13 3½ times = 42 months = 1260 days

Rev 13 Mark and the number of the beast

Rev 15/16 Plagues

Rev 17 False church (also Isa 47)

Rev 18 Come out of Babylon – its fall

Rev 19 Second coming Christ (Acts 1; I Thess 4; Rev 11)

Rev 20 Millennium: Satan’s brief release; White Throne Judgment

Rev 21/22 The NEW HEAVEN and the NEW EARTH