1. Find all the relevant passages. The best tool for this step is a good Bible-search program (or a printed concordance) that will enable a person to look up key words and find the passages in which the subject is treated. For example, in studying a biblical approach to wealth and poverty, one will need to find all the passages containing words such as wealth, wealthy, rich, riches, poverty, and poor. Already this would be a long list, and if the list is too long to be manageable, the student will
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