them in context. The ideal is to read the Bible so thoroughly, to know it so well, that we recognize the context of these verses. When I was a young Christian, recently converted from atheism, I got very hungry for Scripture, and at one point I decided to start just surveying Scripture, reading 40 chapters a day. If you do that, you can get through the NT every week, or through the Bible every month. After a while, somebody will quote a verse, and you’ll say, “Oh, I know what that means in context,”