Scripture Study Topics

Twenty focused passage studies

Each study begins with KJVA source Scripture, separates explanation from the quoted text, identifies immediate and confirming witnesses, and links to any existing curated WIC entries.

1. Matthew 5:17: Did “Fulfill” Abolish the Law?
   Read Matthew 5:17-19 in context and test whether fulfill can mean abolish when YAHUSHA expressly denies destroying the Law and the Prophets.
2. Romans 3:31: Does Faith Establish or Void the Law?
   Examine Romans 3:27-31 and Paul's direct statement that faith does not make the law void but establishes it.
3. Romans 6:14: What Does “Not Under the Law, but Under Grace” Mean?
   Read Romans 6:1-15 to test whether grace abolishes the law or delivers believers from sin's dominion.
4. Romans 7:7: Is the Law Sin?
   Read Romans 7:7-13 and Paul's answer that the law reveals sin while the commandment remains holy, just, and good.
5. Romans 10:4: Is Messiah the End of the Law?
   Read Romans 10:1-4 in context and test whether end means cancellation or the goal toward which the law points.
6. Romans 14: Days, Food, Conscience, and Immediate Context
   Study Romans 14:1-6 and 13-23 without turning disputable eating, common food, or personal esteem into a reversal of Sabbath and clean-food Scripture.
7. Colossians 2:14: What Was Nailed to the Stake?
   Read Colossians 2:13-15 and distinguish the handwriting against us from YAHUAH's righteous instruction.
8. Colossians 2:16: Sabbath, Feast Days, and “Let No Man Judge You”
   Read Colossians 2:16-17 in context and test whether Paul's instruction protects believers from human judgment rather than abolishing appointed times.
9. Galatians 3:10-13: The Curse of the Law Versus Obedience
   Read Galatians 3:10-14 and distinguish the curse for transgression from loving obedience to YAHUAH.
10. Galatians 4:9-10: Days, Months, Times, and Years
    Read Galatians 4:8-11 and identify the former pagan bondage behind Paul's warning about returning to weak and beggarly elements.
11. Ephesians 2:15: The Law of Commandments in Ordinances
    Read Ephesians 2:11-19 and examine the hostility, ordinances, and reconciliation of formerly alienated Gentiles in one body.
12. Acts 10: Peter's Vision and Clean or Unclean Food
    Read Acts 10:9-16, 28, and 34-35 with Peter's own interpretation that he should call no man common or unclean.
13. Acts 15: The Jerusalem Council and the “Yoke”
    Read Acts 15:1-5, 10-11, 19-21, and 28-29 to identify the salvation dispute, the yoke, and the council's starting requirements.
14. Mark 7: “Purging All Meats” in Textual and Immediate Context
    Read Mark 7:1-23 from the handwashing dispute through YAHUSHA's teaching about human tradition and defilement from the heart.
15. 1 Timothy 4:1-5: Foods Created to Be Received
    Read 1 Timothy 4:1-5 and test the difference between forbidding Scripture-defined foods and redefining every creature as food.
16. Hebrews 4: The Sabbath Rest That Remains
    Read Hebrews 4:1-11 and follow its warning about unbelief, its creation witness, and its statement that a Sabbath rest remains.
17. Hebrews 8: New Covenant, Law, and the Heart
    Read Hebrews 8:6-13 and distinguish better promises and a fault with the people from the law YAHUAH writes in minds and hearts.
18. James 2: The Royal Law and the Law of Liberty
    Read James 2:8-12 and 14-26 on the royal law, partiality, the law of liberty, and faith demonstrated by works.
19. 1 John 3:4: Sin, Lawlessness, and Obedience
    Read 1 John 3:4-10 and John's definition of sin as transgression of the law alongside Messiah's work and righteous practice.
20. Revelation 14:12: Faith in YAHUSHA and the Commandments of YAHUAH
    Read Revelation 14:9-12 and its description of the saints as those who keep YAHUAH's commandments and the faith of YAHUSHA.