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Cross References

Scripture interpreting Scripture, which is the oldest study tool there is.

Scripture first

Isaiah 34:16 · 1 Corinthians 2:13 · Acts 17:2-3

Paul reasoned with them from the Scriptures, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. The Bible is its own best commentary, and this shelf is simply the discipline of letting it speak.

What this shelf holds

  • The web of quotation, allusion and shared language that runs across the canon.
  • Half a million linkages in the classic collections, and the tighter set Audela teaches inside its studies.

How to use it

  • Follow a reference and read the whole paragraph around it, never the single verse.
  • Weigh quotation above allusion, and allusion above a shared English word.

What this cannot settle

A cross reference is a suggestion someone made. Some links are verbal accidents of translation, and a chain of them can be assembled to prove almost anything.

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Reference works

Each of these is named so you can open it and check us. Each carries what it is good for and what it cannot decide.

Every entry below is labelled with the kind of evidence it is, so a lexicon is never mistaken for the text and a commentary is never mistaken for a conclusion Scripture has drawn.

  • The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Theological interpretationOffered for weighing, not for receiving · Compiled, attributed to Thomas Scott and others, 1836 · Public domain

    Roughly half a million cross references, verse by verse, with almost no comment.

    Use forLetting Scripture interpret Scripture: the closest thing to a map of the Bible's own connections.

    CautionA reference is a suggestion, not an argument. Some links are verbal rather than theological; test each one in context.

  • Nave's Topical Bible

    Biblical cross-referencesSupports the text, never settles it · Orville J. Nave, 1897 · Public domain

    Around twenty thousand subjects with the verses that speak to each one.

    Use forGathering the whole biblical witness on a topic before drawing any conclusion.

    CautionThe topic headings are a human arrangement. Read the passages in their own context, not as a list of proofs.

  • Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible

    Biblical cross-referencesSupports the text, never settles it · Robert Young, 1879 · Public domain

    English words sorted by which original word lies behind them.

    Use forSeeing where one English word translates several different Hebrew or Greek words.

    CautionKeyed to the King James Version, so the English entries will not always match the translation you are reading.

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