Bible Chapter by Chapter

Chris Hintsala

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. 4 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    2 Corinthians 6: Beatings, Imprisonments, Sleepless Nights — And Yet Possessing Everything

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 6 — one of the most honest, most personally revealing portraits of faithful ministry in all of Scripture. Paul told us in Chapter 5 that we are ambassadors of reconciliation. Now he shows us what that ambassadorship actually looks like in practice. Not in the comfortable. Not in the ideal. In the actual, lived, costly reality of carrying a message through a world that does not always receive it warmly. Beatings. Imprisonments. Riots. Sleepless nights. Going hungry. Being treated as impostors when everything they say is true. And Paul presents every one of these not as complaints — but as credentials. The proof that the ministry is genuine. The evidence that the ambassador is not serving himself. Then come the seven paradoxes that are among the most beautiful lines he ever wrote. Sorrowful — yet always rejoicing. Poor — yet making many rich. Having nothing — and yet possessing everything. But Paul does not stop at the cost. He turns to the Corinthians with a heart that is wide open — after everything it has been through — and asks them to open wide theirs also. And then the call to separation. Not isolation. But distinction. Because we are the temple of the living God. And the promise attached to that reality is one worth every cost it takes to receive it. I will be a Father to you — and you will be my sons and daughters — says the Lord Almighty. Is there a cost you have been unwilling to pay in your own walk with God — a place where the price of faithfulness has felt higher than you were willing to go? 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 #StrengthInWeakness #CostOfDiscipleship #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #ChristianLiving

    25 phút
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    2 Corinthians 5: New Creation, Ambassador, Reconciled — The Three Things You Already Are In Christ

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 5 — one of the most sweeping, most personally transforming chapters Paul ever wrote. It begins with a tent and ends with the righteousness of God. Paul opens by acknowledging something most people feel but rarely say out loud. We groan in this body. We are burdened by the weight of mortality. We long for what is coming. And then he anchors that longing in something unshakeable — we know. We have a building from God, eternal in the heavens, and the Spirit as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come. From that knowing — everything else in this chapter flows. We walk by faith and not by sight. We make it our goal to please Him whether we are here or there. We stand before the judgment seat not in condemnation but in accountability. And then the verses that change everything. If anyone is in Christ — the new creation has come. The old has gone. The new is here. Not a renovated version of who you were. A new creation. Because God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself — not counting people's sins against them. And He has placed the word of that reconciliation in our hands. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors. As though God were making His appeal through us. Every believer. Every ordinary person in every fragile jar of clay. An ambassador of the King — carrying the message that the barrier is gone, the accounting has been settled, and the door is open. If you genuinely believed you were an ambassador of reconciliation — would it change the way you interact with the people around you? 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 #NewCreation #Reconciliation #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #Ambassador

    28 phút
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    2 Corinthians 4: Treasure In Jars Of Clay — And Why Your Weakness Is The Point Not The Problem

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 4 — one of the most sustaining, most honest, and most quietly liberating passages Paul ever wrote. Have you ever felt like you were holding something extraordinary in the most ordinary of containers? Like the life you are living — with all its cracks and limitations and fragility — could not possibly be the right vessel for something as significant as the gospel of Jesus Christ? Paul has an answer for that. We have this treasure in jars of clay — to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. The jar is not the point. The treasure is. And the very fragility of the vessel is what makes it unmistakably clear that the power belongs to God and not to us. Then Paul gives us four of the most carefully balanced statements in all of his writing. Pressed on every side — but not crushed. Perplexed — but not in despair. Persecuted — but not abandoned. Struck down — but not destroyed. Not positive thinking. Not the refusal to acknowledge difficulty. But the confident, tested, experiential knowledge that the One inside the jar is greater than anything pressing against it from the outside. And then the verse that has carried believers through some of the hardest seasons of the Christian life. Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. For what is seen is temporary — but what is unseen is eternal. Is there an area of your life where you have disqualified yourself from being used by God because of how ordinary — or how broken — you feel? 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 #JarsOfClay #StrengthInWeakness #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #ChristianSuffering

    26 phút
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    2 Corinthians 3: Moses Had A Glorious Face — But What We Carry Is More Glorious Than That

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 3 — one of the most theologically luminous passages Paul ever wrote, and one that will fundamentally change the way you think about how spiritual transformation actually happens. Paul's authority was being questioned in Corinth. People wanted letters of recommendation. Credentials. External validation. And Paul's response is not to produce better paperwork. He points to the Corinthians themselves. You are our letter — written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. Not on tablets of stone. But on tablets of human hearts. From there he builds one of the most breathtaking arguments in the New Testament. A comparison between the old covenant and the new. Between the law written on stone and the Spirit written on hearts. Between the glory of Moses — real, undeniable, radiant enough that people could not look at him directly — and the surpassing, remaining, ever-increasing glory of the new covenant. The letter kills. But the Spirit gives life. And then the two verses that hold the whole chapter together. Whenever anyone turns to the Lord — the veil is taken away. And we all, with unveiled faces, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory — by the Spirit of the Lord. Not by trying harder. Not by following the rules more carefully. Not by mustering more willpower in the direction of holiness. By beholding. Do you experience your faith primarily as a set of rules you are trying to keep — or as a transformation happening to you from the inside? 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 #StrengthInWeakness #NewCovenant #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #HolySpirit

    23 phút
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    Matthew 24: The End Times Chapter Everyone Gets Wrong — And What Jesus Was Really Saying

    In this entry episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk carefully through Matthew Chapter 24 — one of the most searched, most debated, and most misunderstood passages in the entire Bible. For two thousand years, people have taken this chapter and mapped it onto their own headlines. Specific wars. Specific leaders. Specific disasters. And every single prediction has been wrong. Not because the chapter is unclear. Because it has been read carelessly. Jesus answered the end times question directly — sitting on the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem — and His answer is more nuanced, more carefully worded, and more personally challenging than most people expect. He is far less interested in satisfying our curiosity than He is in shaping our character. Wars, earthquakes, famines, false prophets — Jesus says these are not signs that the end is imminent. They are the condition of a broken world groaning toward redemption. Like contractions before birth — painful, increasing in intensity, but not yet the arrival. And the one clear marker Jesus actually points to? Not a war. Not a political figure. The gospel reaching every nation, every language, every people on earth. Then He lands on something almost shockingly ordinary. Be faithful. Right now. In the waiting. In the ordinary moments of your ordinary life. Because the question Jesus is really asking at the end of this chapter is not — do you know when I am coming? It is — when I come, will I find you faithful? Has end times teaching ever caused you more anxiety than peace — or has it deepened your faith? 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 #Matthew24 #EndTimes #SecondComing #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #Prophecy

    21 phút
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    2 Corinthians 2: The Letter Written In Tears — And Why Forgiveness Is Never Just About The Other Person

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 2 — one of the most personally revealing passages Paul ever wrote. Someone in the Corinthian church had caused real harm. We don't know exactly who. We don't have all the details. But the pain was real. The damage was real. And Paul had written a letter about it — not with anger, not with apostolic authority wielded like a weapon — but with many tears, out of great distress and anguish of heart. Not to wound them. But to let them know the depth of his love. And now — with the discipline complete and the person brought to repentance — Paul does something no one expected. He advocates for the one who hurt him. Forgive him. Comfort him. Confirm your love toward him. Before he is overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. But Paul goes further than pastoral warmth. He names something that makes unforgiveness far more dangerous than it first appears. Unforgiveness is not just a personal failure. It is a foothold. A place where the enemy takes what should have been resolved and uses it to divide, embitter, and destroy what God intended to restore. And then — in the middle of all this unresolved grief and anxiety — Paul breaks into thanksgiving. Not because everything is settled. But because he has learned to trust the One who leads us in triumphal procession even when we don't yet know how the story ends. Is there someone in your life you know you need to forgive — but the cost feels greater than you are willing to pay? 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 #Forgiveness #StrengthInWeakness #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #ChristianLiving

    21 phút
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    2 Corinthians 1: The God Who Shows Up When You Have Nothing Left — Strength in Weakness Begins Here

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we open Season 7 with Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians — and it begins in a place no one expected. Not with triumph. Not with a list of ministry accomplishments. Not with the confident authority of an apostle who has everything together. It begins with suffering. Paul tells the Corinthians something startling. That during his time in Asia, the pressure was so severe — so far beyond what he could bear — that he despaired of life itself. That he felt he had received the sentence of death. And then he tells them what he found on the other side of that. Not an escape from suffering. Something far more useful. A God who meets us in it. The Father of mercies. The God of all comfort. Who comforts us in all our troubles — not to make us comfortable — but so that we can comfort others with the same comfort we have received. This is the opening chapter of the most personal, most emotionally raw, most vulnerable letter Paul ever wrote. And it establishes the theme that will run through every chapter of Season 7. Strength in weakness. The power of God is not most visible in our moments of confidence and competence. It is most visible in our moments of fragility and need. Has suffering ever produced something in you that comfort never could? 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 #StrengthInWeakness #GodOfAllComfort #ChristianPodcast #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #ChristianSuffering

    23 phút

Giới Thiệu

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.