Single most comprehensive chapter?

[crossnote]

Which single chapter out of all the Bible would you say is the most comprehensive, covering much of our faith?

com·pre·hen·sive
adjective
1.
complete; including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
"a comprehensive list of sources"

 

[CharliRenee]

Colossians 3 comes to mind. Hmmm, maybe John 3. Isaiah 53, hmmm. Good question.

 

[CharliRenee]

1 Corinthians 1

 

[Magenta]

Maybe John 17?

 

[calibob]

Which single chapter out of all the Bible would you say is the most comprehensive, covering much of our faith?

com·pre·hen·sive
adjective
1.
complete; including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
"a comprehensive list of sources"

It's more then one chapter but Sermon on the mount from Matthew is #1 in my opinion as far as Christian attitudes and behavior go. But if we want a quick Cliff note style synopsis that includes the old testament the book of Hebrews is the ticket. That about as brief as I can get.

 

[Magenta]

Bob and I just read Acts chapter 13 together, and it encapsulates our faith quite well

Here is part of what it says:

“Fellow Israelites and you Gentiles who worship God, listen to me! 17 The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country; 18 for about forty years he endured their conduct in the wilderness; 19 and he overthrew seven nations in Canaan, giving their land to his people as their inheritance. 20 All this took about 450 years.

“After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. 21 Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years. 22 After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’

23 “From this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised. 24 Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel. 25 As John was completing his work, he said: ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not the one you are looking for. But there is one coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’

26 “Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. 27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. 28 Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29 When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people.

32 “We tell you the good news: What God promised our ancestors 33 he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm:

“‘You are my son;
today I have become your father.’

34 God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said,

“‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

35 So it is also stated elsewhere:

“‘You will not let your holy one see decay.’

36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed. 37 But the one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

38 “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. 40 Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:

“‘Look, you scoffers,
wonder and perish,
for I am going to do something in your days
that you would never believe,
even if someone told you.’

 

[Magenta]

 

[posthuman]

Which single chapter out of all the Bible would you say is the most comprehensive, covering much of our faith?

com·pre·hen·sive
adjective
1.
complete; including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
"a comprehensive list of sources"

Genesis 3?

 

[notuptome]

Depends on what you are endeavoring to comprehend. Psalm 119 is pretty comprehensive but does not endeavor to address the issues of Genesis 3 or John 3.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

 

[crossnote]

Genesis 3?

That's my pick exactly!.

 

[Locoponydirtman]

It depends on what direction you are coming to the Gospel. If it's from a new Christian trying to figure out his walk, probably Romans 8. If it is for a perspective of defining who Jesus is or Christology, then probably John 1.
From an evangelistic perspective then likely John 3.
Ya get to the Gospel no matter what chapter you read, so it's a matter approach and purpose.

 

[Deade]

It depends on what direction you are coming to the Gospel. If it's from a new Christian trying to figure out his walk, probably Romans 8. If it is for a perspective of defining who Jesus is or Christology, then probably John 1.
From an evangelistic perspective then likely John 3.
Ya get to the Gospel no matter what chapter you read, so it's a matter approach and purpose.

I agree with dirtman above, but as a mature (I mean old) Christian my most cherished chapter is 1 Corinthians 13. I must remind myself what agape means, and how it affects my walk with Christ.

 

[stonesoffire]

"When he had received the drink, Jesus said, 'It is finished.' With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." (John 19:30)

John 19

 

[dcontroversal]

HAHAH to answer this would be akin to a kid winning a ticket to Willy Wonkas chocolate factory and then picking your favorite candy....

Genesis 3 does contain the fall and the promise of redemption.....so it does somewhat encapsulates the whole concept.......

 

[p_rehbein]

Guess I see things different than, well pretty much, than everyone.

John, Chapter 17

1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

 

[crossnote]

HAHAH to answer this would be akin to a kid winning a ticket to Willy Wonkas chocolate factory and then picking your favorite candy....

Genesis 3 does contain the fall and the promise of redemption.....so it does somewhat encapsulates the whole concept.......

It also contains satan's subtle tactics, how we get entrapped by engaging in discussion with the enemy (instead of standing firmly on God's Word), how we get drawn away by our own lusts, how mankind lost his 'innocence' and now hides from God through the invention of their own religion,entrance of fear, how we blame-shift, why we wear clothes and animals don't, the mercy of God and so much more.
Tis a pity liberal theologians treat it as a myth, as they are missing a lot of insight into the human psyche.

 

[Mii]

John 1