Read + Know
Themes
Ideas that run across the canon, each with the passages where they surface most clearly.
Love
From covenant loyalty to the command to love enemies.
1 Corinthians 13 · Matthew 5
Forgiveness
Debt, release and reconciliation across both testaments.
Matthew 18 · Psalms 51
Faith
Trust as posture rather than certainty.
Hebrews 11 · Genesis 15
Justice
The prophets' insistence on how the vulnerable are treated.
Amos 5 · Micah 6
Wisdom
Israel's practical and philosophical literature.
Proverbs 1 · Ecclesiastes 3
Fear
Awe, dread and the repeated 'do not be afraid'.
Isaiah 41 · Psalms 27
Hope
Expectation held under pressure.
Romans 8 · Lamentations 3
Prayer
How biblical figures actually speak to God.
Matthew 6 · Psalms 88
Marriage
Covenant, household and law.
Genesis 2 · Ephesians 5
Family
Lineage, conflict and inheritance.
Genesis 37 · Ruth 1
Death
Sheol, mourning and resurrection hope.
Ecclesiastes 12 · 1 Corinthians 15
Suffering
Job, lament and the cross.
Job 1 · Psalms 22
Money
Wealth, debt, jubilee and generosity.
Luke 12 · Leviticus 25
Leadership
Kings, judges, elders and shepherds.
1 Samuel 8 · Mark 10
War
Conquest texts and their long interpretive history.
Joshua 6 · Isaiah 2
Peace
Shalom as wholeness, not merely absence of conflict.
Isaiah 9 · Matthew 5
Sin
Missing the mark, and its social shape.
Romans 3 · Genesis 3
Grace
Unearned favour in Paul's letters.
Ephesians 2 · Romans 5
Salvation
Rescue language across both testaments.
Exodus 14 · Romans 10
Prophecy
Speaking for God, and how prophecy was read later.
Isaiah 53 · Joel 2
Heaven
Imagery, expectation and interpretation.
Revelation 21
Hell
Gehenna, Hades and how translations differ.
Matthew 25 · Mark 9
Resurrection
From Daniel 12 to 1 Corinthians 15.
Daniel 12 · 1 Corinthians 15
Covenant
The structuring idea of the Hebrew Bible.
Genesis 17 · Jeremiah 31