How to Read the Bible.

Openness to all of it.

2 Timothy 3:16-17  

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 3:12  

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

1 Corinthians 2:13  

This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

John 14:16-17  

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—

17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

Galatians 5:16  

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

Galatians 5:26 

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.