Comparing Scriptures by John Nevins Andrews

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 24, 1868

Comparing Scriptures.

By John Nevins Andrews

Do you ever make a business of looking out the references when you read the Bible? Do you ever observe marginal readings? I am aware that this is a slow process, but it is full of interest and profit. Perhaps you can read only a few verses a day in this manner, but if you will do this, you will be not only instructed but even delighted with the exercise. Beside your other Bible reading, as often as possible read a few verses in this manner. You will do well to take your Bible in course, and as you thus slowly read it, “comparing spiritual things with spiritual,” you will be ready to exclaim with Paul, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” Rom. xi, 33; 1 Cor. ii, 13. J. N. A.