Curated Scripture studies
Words in Context Bible Studies
Each study begins with a specific Scripture reference, considers the surrounding passage, and follows related Scripture witnesses.
116 Scripture studies
Choose a passage to examine its immediate context, related witnesses, and practical takeaway.
- Matthew 5:17 — Fulfil Does Not Mean Abolish
- Matthew 5:18 — Not One Jot or Tittle Has Passed Away
- Matthew 7:1 — Judge Not Does Not Silence Righteous Correction
- Matthew 9:13 — Mercy Does Not Excuse Disobedience
- Matthew 11:28-30 — Rest in Messiah Does Not Erase the Sabbath
- Matthew 12:1-8 — Sabbath Mercy Corrects Tradition, Not YAHUAH
- Matthew 12:7 — Mercy and Obedience Belong Together
- Matthew 12:8 — Master of the Sabbath Did Not Destroy the Sabbath
- Matthew 15:11 — Heart Defilement Does Not Redefine Food
- Matthew 15:17-20 — Defilement From the Heart Is Not a Food-Law Reversal
- Matthew 22:37-40 — Love Hangs the Law, It Does Not Replace It
- Matthew 23:23 — Weightier Matters Do Not Cancel the Others
- Mark 2:23-28 — The Sabbath Was Made for Man, Not Abolished by Man
- Mark 3:1-6 — Healing on Sabbath Upholds Mercy Within the Commandment
- Mark 7:15 — Nothing Entering Does Not Mean Every Creature Is Food
- Mark 7:18-19 — Mark Seven Must Not Be Used Against Torah
- Mark 12:29-31 — The Greatest Commandments Summarize, Not Replace
- Luke 6:1-5 — YAHUSHA Corrected Sabbath Accusation, Not Sabbath Itself
- Luke 6:6-11 — Doing Good on Sabbath Does Not Make Sabbath Common
- Luke 10:27 — Love YAHUAH and Neighbor Is Torah Language
- Luke 16:16 — The Law and Prophets Were Preached, Not Canceled
- John 1:17 — Grace and Truth Do Not Oppose the Law
- John 4:21-24 — Spirit and Truth Does Not Mean Man-Defined Worship
- John 5:16-18 — YAHUSHA Was Accused of Sabbath Breaking
- John 8:36 — Freedom in Messiah Is Freedom From Sin
- John 13:34 — The New Commandment Does Not Cancel the Old Witness
- John 15:12 — Love One Another Must Be Defined by the Word
- Acts 10:9-16 — Peter's Vision Was About Men, Not Unclean Meat
- Acts 10:15 — What YAHUAH Cleansed Must Match Peter's Explanation
- Acts 10:28 — Peter Interprets the Vision as About People
- Acts 11:9 — Common and Unclean Must Follow the Vision's Meaning
- Acts 15:10 — The Yoke Was Not YAHUAH's Righteous Instruction
- Acts 15:19-21 — Four Starting Points Were Not a Replacement Torah
- Acts 15:28-29 — The Apostolic Decree Did Not End Obedience
- Acts 20:7 — A First-Day Meeting Does Not Replace Sabbath
- Romans 3:20 — The Law Reveals Sin; It Does Not Become Sin
- Romans 3:21 — Without the Law Does Not Mean Against the Law
- Romans 3:28 — Justification Without Boasting Does Not Void Obedience
- Romans 4:15 — Wrath Comes Through Transgression, Not Through Righteous Instruction
- Romans 5:20 — The Law Exposes Sin So Grace Can Rescue
- Romans 6:14 — Not Under Law Means Not Under Sin's Dominion
- Romans 6:15 — Grace Is Not Permission to Sin
- Romans 7:4 — Dead to the Law Does Not Mean Alive to Lawlessness
- Romans 7:6 — Newness of Spirit Does Not Cancel the Written Witness
- Romans 8:2 — The Spirit Frees From Sin and Death
- Romans 10:4 — End Means Goal, Not Cancellation
- Romans 13:8 — Love Fulfills the Law by Doing It Rightly
- Romans 13:10 — Love Does No Harm Because It Walks in Commandment Truth
- Romans 14:2 — Romans 14 Is Not Permission to Eat the Unclean
- Romans 14:3 — Disputable Eating Is Not a Clean/Unclean Reversal
- Romans 14:5 — Romans 14 Is Not a Sabbath Abolition Text
- Romans 14:6 — Esteeming a Day Does Not Replace YAHUAH's Appointed Time
- Romans 14:14 — Common Is Not the Same as Biblically Unclean
- Romans 14:17 — Kingdom Priorities Do Not Erase Food Boundaries
- Romans 14:20 — All Things Pure Must Stay Within Scripture's Definitions
- 1 Corinthians 5:8 — Let Us Keep the Feast Is Not an Anti-Feast Text
- 1 Corinthians 6:12 — All Things Lawful Is Not Lawlessness
- 1 Corinthians 8:8 — Idol-Meat Questions Do Not Redefine Clean Food
- 1 Corinthians 9:20 — Paul's Mission Strategy Did Not Abandon Torah
- 1 Corinthians 9:21 — Not Without Law to YAHUAH
- 1 Corinthians 10:23 — Lawful Does Not Mean Edifying or Clean
- 1 Corinthians 10:25 — Market Meat Instruction Is Not a Swine-Cleansing Text
- 1 Corinthians 16:2 — First-Day Collection Does Not Establish Sunday Sabbath
- 2 Corinthians 3:6 — The Letter Kills When the Heart Is Unrenewed
- 2 Corinthians 3:7 — The Ministry of Death Is Not a Condemnation of Righteous Law
- 2 Corinthians 3:11 — What Faded Was Glory of Administration, Not YAHUAH's Righteousness
- 2 Corinthians 3:14 — The Veil Is on Hardened Hearts, Not on Scripture's Authority
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 — New Creation Does Not Mean New Lawlessness
- Galatians 2:16 — Works of Law Do Not Mean Obedience Is Legalism
- Galatians 2:19 — Dead to Law as Condemnation, Alive to YAHUAH
- Galatians 2:21 — Grace Is Not Frustrated by Faithful Obedience
- Galatians 3:10 — The Curse Is for Transgression, Not for Loving Obedience
- Galatians 3:13 — Redeemed From the Curse, Not From Righteous Instruction
- Galatians 3:19 — Added Because of Transgressions Does Not Mean Evil
- Galatians 3:23 — Before Faith Came Does Not Erase the Word
- Galatians 3:24 — The Schoolmaster Led to Messiah
- Galatians 3:25 — No Longer Under a Schoolmaster Does Not Mean Lawless
- Galatians 4:9 — Weak and Beggarly Elements Are Not YAHUAH's Commandments
- Galatians 4:10 — Pagan Timekeeping Is Not the Same as YAHUAH's Appointments
- Galatians 5:1 — The Yoke of Bondage Is Not Covenant Obedience
- Galatians 5:4 — Falling From Grace Is About Justification by Flesh
- Galatians 5:14 — Love Fulfills the Law Without Replacing It
- Galatians 5:18 — Led by the Spirit Does Not Mean Led Away From Commandments
- Ephesians 2:8-9 — Not of Works Does Not Mean Without Fruit
- Ephesians 2:14 — The Wall Broken Down Was Hostility, Not Righteous Instruction
- Ephesians 2:15 — Commandments in Ordinances Must Be Read Carefully
- Philippians 3:9 — Not Mine Own Righteousness Does Not Reject Obedient Fruit
- Colossians 2:8 — Colossians Warns Against Tradition of Men
- Colossians 2:14 — The Handwriting Against Us Was Nailed Up
- Colossians 2:16 — Let No Man Judge You Regarding YAHUAH's Appointed Times
- Colossians 2:17 — A Shadow Still Belongs to the Body of Messiah
- Colossians 2:20 — Rudiments of the World Are Not YAHUAH's Appointments
- Colossians 2:21 — Touch Not, Taste Not Targets Man-Made Rules
- Colossians 2:22 — Commandments of Men Are Not Commandments of YAHUAH
- 1 Timothy 4:1-3 — Forbidding Foods Does Not Condemn Clean/Unclean Teaching
- 1 Timothy 4:4 — Every Creature Is Good According to Its Created Purpose
- 1 Timothy 4:5 — Sanctified by the Word Means the Word Defines Food
- Titus 1:15 — To the Pure All Things Are Pure Is Not a Sin-Cleansing Formula
- Titus 3:5 — Not by Works of Righteousness Does Not Cancel Righteous Living
- Hebrews 4:3 — Entering His Rest Does Not Erase His Sabbath
- Hebrews 4:9 — A Sabbath Rest Remains
- Hebrews 7:12 — Priesthood Change Does Not Abolish All Torah
- Hebrews 7:18 — The Disannulled Commandment Concerns Levitical Priesthood Access
- Hebrews 8:6 — The Better Covenant Has Better Promises, Not Lawlessness
- Hebrews 8:7 — The Fault Was With the People
- Hebrews 8:13 — Old Covenant Vanishing Does Not Erase the Law Written Within
- Hebrews 9:10 — Until Reformation Does Not Void All Clean Order
- Hebrews 10:1 — Shadow Does Not Mean Worthless
- Hebrews 10:9 — He Takes Away Sacrificial Administration, Not Obedience
- Hebrews 13:9 — Established by Grace, Not Food Controversy
- James 2:10 — The Whole Law Warning Is Not Permission to Keep None
- 1 Peter 1:16 — Be Holy Restores the Leviticus Context
- 2 Peter 3:16 — Paul Must Not Be Twisted Into Lawlessness
- 1 John 2:27 — The Anointing Does Not Cancel Testing and Teaching
- Revelation 14:12 — The Saints Keep Commandments and Faith Together
- Revelation 22:14 — The Final Blessing Does Not Belong to Lawlessness