Bible Chapter by Chapter

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Bible Chapter by Chapter is a calm, podcast-style journey through Scripture using the public-domain World English Bible (WEB). Each episode reads one full chapter, then adds clear context, simple commentary, and a short prayer to help you listen, reflect, and grow. Great for daily devotions, small groups, and new believers who want God’s Word explained without noise. Walk through the Gospels, Psalms, Proverbs, and more, one chapter at a time. Listen. Reflect. Grow.

  1. 1D AGO

    Galatians 2: The Confrontation That Changed History — And The Four Words That Explain Why

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Galatians Chapter 2 — one of the most personally revealing and theologically explosive chapters Paul ever wrote. Paul goes back to Jerusalem. He lays out his gospel before the pillars of the church — James, Peter, and John. And they add nothing. Not a single requirement. Not a single correction. The right hand of fellowship. Full affirmation. The gospel Paul preaches is not a lesser version of the Jerusalem gospel. It is the same gospel. Recognized. Affirmed. Handed back to him without amendment. But then something happens in Antioch that changes everything. Peter arrives. For a time he eats freely with the Gentile believers — living out the truth that in Christ there is no dividing wall, that the table belongs to everyone who belongs to Christ. And then some people arrive from James. And Peter withdraws. Separates himself. Moves back across the line the gospel had abolished. Not because his theology changed. Because his courage failed. And Paul confronts him. To his face. In front of everyone. Because the damage was public, Barnabas had been swept along, and a private correction for a public error was not enough. Paul does not call Peter a heretic. He calls him something far more uncomfortable for most of us. A hypocrite. The gap between what you believe and how you behave when the social pressure is moving in the other direction. And from that confrontation — Paul draws the statement that the entire letter has been building toward. A person is not justified by the works of the law — but by faith in Jesus Christ. Four words at the core. That changed the course of history. Is there a truth you know — that you have not yet been willing to live consistently? Leave your answer in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #Galatians #TheGospelDefended #JustificationByFaith #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #GraceAlone

    25 min

  2. 2D AGO

    Galatians 1: No Other Gospel — And Why Paul Said It Twice Just To Make Sure You Heard It

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we open Season 8 with Paul's Letter to the Galatians — and it begins unlike any other letter he ever wrote. No thanksgiving. No warm preamble. No easing into the content. Just — I am astonished. One word. Expressing the disbelief of someone who cannot understand how this happened so quickly. The churches Paul planted in Galatia were deserting the gospel. Not slowly. Not after a long process of doubt. Quickly. And they were doing it by adding to it. Other teachers had arrived — people Paul calls agitators — telling the Galatian believers that faith in Christ was not enough. That they also needed circumcision. That they needed to observe the Jewish law. That grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone — was insufficient. And Paul's response is one of the most uncompromising statements in all of his letters. But even if we — or an angel from heaven — should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you — let them be under God's curse. He says it twice. In consecutive verses. In case anyone missed it the first time. Because the gospel is not his to change. Not anyone's. It was not received from men or taught by a teacher. It came by direct revelation from Jesus Christ. And that means the moment you add human performance as a necessary component of salvation — you have not found a different version of the gospel. You have lost it entirely. Is there anything you have added to the gospel — consciously or unconsciously — that you treat as necessary for acceptance with God beyond faith in Christ alone? Leave your answer in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #Galatians #TheGospelDefended #GraceAlone #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #FaithNotWorks

    25 min

  3. 3D AGO

    2 Corinthians: The Thorn, The Jar, and The Grace That Was Always Enough — A Closing Sermon

    In this special closing sermon for Season 7 of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we step back from the individual chapters of Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians and ask the question the whole letter has been building toward. What do you do with the thing that will not go away? The thorn. The limitation. The weakness you would not have chosen. The prayer you have prayed more than three times that has still not been answered the way you hoped. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians is not a letter about exceptional people doing exceptional things. It is a letter about ordinary people — cracked, fragile, frequently overwhelmed — discovering that the God they thought required their strength actually works best through their weakness. Not despite it. Through it. We have this treasure in jars of clay — to show that the all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. That image is the heartbeat of the entire letter. And it speaks directly into every place where you have been tempted to disqualify yourself. Where the weakness has felt like evidence that something has gone wrong. Where the cost has been higher than you expected and the strength has run out before the need did. Your weakness is not hiding the glory of God. It is framing it. Paul gives us three anchoring realities in this letter. The God who comforts the downcast. The treasure in the jar of clay. And the sufficient grace of the unanswered prayer. My grace is sufficient for you — for my power is made perfect in weakness. Eight words. For every thorn that remains. For every jar that is cracking. For every person who has stopped pretending to be sufficient — and is ready to discover that the grace was always there. What is the thorn you have been carrying? Leave your answer in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Based on the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, contemplative devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #2Corinthians #StrengthInWeakness #GraceIsSufficient #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #ChristianSuffering

    13 min

  4. 4D AGO

    Romans 7: Why You Keep Doing What You Hate — And The One Answer That Actually Works

    Recently a comedian said something that stopped the internet. Not a joke. Not a punchline. Not a carefully crafted bit designed to get a reaction. Just a man — in front of millions of people — saying out loud what most people only say in the dark. That he needed God to save him from himself. And the reason it went viral is not because it was surprising. It is because it was true. Because somewhere underneath the scrolling and the noise and the carefully curated version of ourselves we present to the world — most people know that feeling. The feeling of doing the thing you told yourself you would not do again. The pattern that keeps repeating no matter how many times you resolve to break it. The gap between the person you want to be and the person you actually are when no one is watching. That feeling has a name. Paul gave it one two thousand years ago. I do not do the good I want to do — but the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing. Romans Chapter 7 is one of the most searingly honest, most personally recognizable, most hope-filled passages in all of Scripture. Because Paul felt it too. Not as a theological category. As a daily, lived, undeniable reality. And his answer is not try harder. It is not accept what you cannot change. It is not a program or a system or a discipline. It is a person. Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God — through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 7 is not a chapter about defeat. It is a chapter about diagnosis. And the diagnosis is the doorway to the answer. Because the person who knows they cannot rescue themselves is the person who is finally ready to receive rescue. Have you ever made the cry of verse 24 — in your own words, in your own way? Leave it in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #Romans7 #TheoVon #WhyDoIKeepSinning #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #Romans

    18 min

  5. 5D AGO

    2 Corinthians 13: Examine Yourself — The Most Important Test You Will Ever Take

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 13 — the final chapter of one of the most personal, most vulnerable, and most theologically profound letters Paul ever wrote. Paul is coming to Corinth. This will be his third visit. And he will not be lenient with those who have continued in sin without repenting. But before the warning — he gives them something far more valuable than any threat. A test. Not a test of Paul's credentials. Not an evaluation of his authority. Not an assessment of whether he measures up to the standard they have been applying to him. Examine yourselves. See whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you? Throughout this letter the Corinthians have been evaluating Paul. Questioning his authority. Demanding proof. And Paul turns the examination completely around. Stop looking at me. Look at yourself. Is the faith alive in you? Is the Spirit present? Is Jesus Christ actually in you — or have you been so busy testing everyone else that you have neglected the only test that actually matters? And then — after thirteen chapters of suffering, comfort, weakness, grace, thorns, visions, foolish boasting, and sufficient grace — Paul closes with one of the most beautiful benedictions in all of Scripture. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God. The fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Be with you all. Not the ones who passed the test. Not the ones who got it right. All. That is how the letter ends. Not with triumph. Not with a neat resolution. With grace. And love. And fellowship. For everyone. If you examined yourself honestly right now — not your church, not the people around you, just yourself — what would you find? Leave your answer in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #2Corinthians #ExamineYourself #StrengthInWeakness #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #GraceIsSufficient

    22 min

  6. 6D AGO

    2 Corinthians 12: The Thorn That Wouldn't Leave — And The Eight Words That Changed Everything

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 12 — the theological summit of the entire letter, and one of the most personally transforming passages Paul ever wrote. Paul had an experience he kept private for fourteen years. Caught up to the third heaven. To paradise. Hearing things not permitted for a human being to speak. An encounter so extraordinary he cannot even say with certainty whether it happened in the body or out of it. And then — immediately after the most extraordinary spiritual experience of his life — a thorn. A messenger of Satan. Given to torment him. To keep him from becoming conceited. Three times he asked God to take it away. Three times — with full sincerity, full faith, and full expectation. And three times the same answer came back. My grace is sufficient for you — for my power is made perfect in weakness. Eight words. That have carried more suffering believers through more difficult seasons than almost anything else in Scripture. Not — here is why this is happening. Not — it will end soon. Not — you just need more faith. My grace is sufficient for you. Paul's response to that answer is one of the most remarkable attitude reversals in all of his letters. He does not grieve the unanswered prayer. He boasts in it. Gladly. Because he has understood something that changes the way weakness feels. God's power is not merely present in weakness. It is most fully expressed there. When the jar is too cracked to hold anything of its own — the treasure is unmistakable. When I am weak — then I am strong. Is there a thorn in your life — something you have asked God to remove — that He has not removed? And have you been able to find anything of grace in it? Leave your answer in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #2Corinthians #ThornInTheFlesh #StrengthInWeakness #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #GraceIsSufficient

    27 min

  7. APR 26

    2 Corinthians 11: Beatings, Shipwrecks, and a Basket Through a Wall — The Most Honest Résumé Ever Written

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 11 — one of the most remarkable, most uncomfortable, and most honest chapters Paul ever wrote. Paul calls it foolishness. He says so repeatedly. He knows that what he is about to do does not fit his own theology of boasting only in the Lord. But he does it anyway. Because there are false apostles in Corinth. Impressive teachers. People who present themselves as servants of righteousness — and are leading the church Paul planted away from the simplicity of their devotion to Christ. Quietly. Convincingly. In ways that look like light. And no wonder — for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. So Paul picks up his pen and does something he would rather not do. He boasts. Not in his successes. Not in his credentials. Not in the things that impress the people who have been criticizing him. He boasts in his sufferings. Five times flogged — thirty-nine lashes each time. Three times beaten with rods. Once stoned. Three times shipwrecked. A night and a day in the open sea. Danger from rivers, bandits, his own people, Gentiles, the city, the wilderness, and false brothers. Hunger, thirst, cold, nakedness, sleepless nights. And then the line that carries the full weight of everything Paul was. Besides everything else — I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. Daily. Not occasionally. Every single day. This is not a triumph narrative. It is a credential of faithfulness. The documented, undeniable proof that Paul had not been serving himself. Is there someone or something in your life right now that is impressive on the surface — but that you sense may be leading you away from the simplicity of your devotion to Christ? Leave your answer in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #2Corinthians #FalseTeachers #StrengthInWeakness #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #PaulsLife

    27 min

  8. APR 25

    Acts 1: The Moment After The Resurrection Nobody Talks About — And Why It Changes Everything

    In this entry episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Acts Chapter 1 — one of the most transitional, most overlooked, and most misunderstood chapters in the entire New Testament. Most people know the Christmas story. Most people know the Easter story. But there is a moment in between that almost nobody talks about. Forty days after the resurrection — Jesus gathered His disciples on a hillside outside Jerusalem — and disappeared into the clouds. No funeral. No farewell dinner. No final book to leave behind. He simply rose. And left eleven people standing there staring at the sky. What do you do with that? Acts Chapter 1 is where the story of Jesus becomes the story of the church. And it begins not with triumph — but with waiting. Before He ascended, Jesus gave His disciples one instruction. And it was not what you would expect. He did not say go. He did not say preach. He did not say build the church. He said wait. Because what He was about to send them was not just information to share. It was power to live by. The Holy Spirit — promised, coming, about to change everything. And the ascension itself — the moment most Christians skip past between Easter and Pentecost — turns out to be one of the most significant events in the entire story. Jesus did not dissolve into spirit. He did not simply disappear. He ascended bodily into heaven — to reign. To intercede. And to come back. The ascension is not an ending. It is an enthronement. Are you in a season of waiting right now — believing for something that has not yet arrived? Leave your answer in the comments. We read every one. 📖 Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB)🎧 Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format📺 New episodes every chapter 📺 Watch more Bible studies here:https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD Subscribe to Bible Chapter by Chapter and follow along as we walk through God's Word — one chapter at a time. #BibleStudy #Acts1 #Ascension #HolySpirit #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #BookOfActs

    17 min
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Bible Chapter by Chapter is a calm, podcast-style journey through Scripture using the public-domain World English Bible (WEB). Each episode reads one full chapter, then adds clear context, simple commentary, and a short prayer to help you listen, reflect, and grow. Great for daily devotions, small groups, and new believers who want God’s Word explained without noise. Walk through the Gospels, Psalms, Proverbs, and more, one chapter at a time. Listen. Reflect. Grow.

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  • Creator
    Chris Hintsala
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    161
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Chris Hintsala
  • Show Website
    Bible Chapter by Chapter