Where should I start reading in the bible to motivate myself?

Bu Tran: Where should I start in the bible to motivate me to keep reading?
The bible is hard to get into. Could you recommend a particular chapter?

Answers and Views:

Answer by THOR in 44 days
revelation 22:21

reading verses after that are the best parts.

Answer by Goldiesly
Hmmmm well I would start where you think you most need help< something your struggling with ect. Maybe join a Bible study with some homework, that would help you look deeper into it and it would make it easier to understand and read.

Answer by I’m Blessed
You need to read the book of Acts first. In it you will find the birth of the New Testament Church and it’s ACTS.

Answer by Moneyman
I started with matthew because, it talks about how Jesus came about and how he died.. It was very sad at the end of the chapter! But it was sooo intersting i read it on my way home from school, SOMETIMES on my way to school. I read it as if it were a book. Im 16 and i found it intersting silmply because, it talks about how cruel the pharstaies were to Jesus, how his own disciple betrayed him and more.. Read Matthew 1st defiently recommend it.

Answer by dark_scriptor
I would suggest that you begin by reading the link below. There are great kernels of truth and wisdom found within the Bible, without doubt, but there is a considerable amount of social and political messages implanted as well.

If you really need some kind of motivation to read this text, you might want to examine your hesitancy. Otherwise, I would suggest just doing a keyword search on topics of interest to you and then follow up on the verses suggested. You will be at least making an effort and perhaps it might be a start?

Answer by Sushi platter
When I first began reading the Bible I started in Matthew, it has kept me motivated to keep reading the Bible for quite some time now 🙂

Just start at Matthew, read the whole New Testament and then once you’ve established a routine it’ll make reading the Old Testament easier (some parts are a little boring)… you won’t really start to understand the Old Testament until you’ve read (and begin to understand) the New Testament.

Answer by Lomi Lomi
This will be good for everyone. Don’t be afraid!

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John 14 (Contemporary English Version)

John 14
Jesus Is the Way to the Father

1Jesus said to his disciples, “Don’t be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me. [a] 2There are many rooms in my Father’s house. I wouldn’t tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you. 3After I have done this, I will come back and take you with me. Then we will be together. 4You know the way to where I am going.” 5Thomas said, “Lord, we don’t even know where you are going! How can we know the way?”

6″I am the way, the truth, and the life!” Jesus answered. “Without me, no one can go to the Father. 7If you had known me, you would have known the Father. But from now on, you do know him, and you have seen him.”

8Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father. That is all we need.”

9Jesus replied:

Philip, I have been with you for a long time. Don’t you know who I am? If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. How can you ask me to show you the Father? 10Don’t you believe that I am one with the Father and that the Father is one with me? What I say isn’t said on my own. The Father who lives in me does these things.

11Have faith in me when I say that the Father is one with me and that I am one with the Father. Or else have faith in me simply because of the things I do. 12I tell you for certain that if you have faith in me, you will do the same things that I am doing. You will do even greater things, now that I am going back to the Father. 13Ask me, and I will do whatever you ask. This way the Son will bring honor to the Father. 14I will do whatever you ask me to do.

The Holy Spirit Is Promised
15Jesus said to his disciples:

If you love me, you will do as I command. 16Then I will ask the Father to send you the Holy Spirit who will help [b] you and always be with you. 17The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don’t see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living in you. 18I won’t leave you like orphans. I will come back to you. 19In a little while the people of this world won’t be able to see me, but you will see me. And because I live, you will live. 20Then you will know that I am one with the Father. You will know that you are one with me, and I am one with you. 21If you love me, you will do what I have said, and my Father will love you. I will also love you and show you what I am like.

22The other Judas, not Judas Iscariot, [c] then spoke up and asked, “Lord, what do you mean by saying that you will show us what you are like, but you will not show the people of this world?” 23Jesus replied:

If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them. 24But anyone who doesn’t love me, won’t obey me. What they have heard me say doesn’t really come from me, but from the Father who sent me.

25I have told you these things while I am still with you. 26But the Holy Spirit will come and help [d] you, because the Father will send the Spirit to take my place. The Spirit will teach you everything and will remind you of what I said while I was with you. 27I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn’t like the peace that this world can give. So don’t be worried or afraid.