[Springfield Reformer]

lol! Well, in my six decades I’ve known plenty of Protestant Christians, mostly Baptist. But I still don’t know any, not one, who specifically uses any kind of KJV study guide. Thompson chain reference counts, maybe, but it’s not actual commentary. Someone gave my son one of those. Just an index in the center column pointing to related verses. I gave up on Bibles with study guides after quitting Scofield’s dispensationalism. I guess there’s still an active market for them. Just no one I know uses them. They would, like me, consider them intrusions, unwanted interlopers on the pages of Scripture.

Bottom line, when I want to know what God says, I go to my Bible. When I want to know what other godly teachers have thought about a given passage, I go look for a good commentary. Or better still, break out the Hebrew or Greek, with morphology tags, along with some good lexicons. But there is no substitute for regular, reflective, reverent reading of the pure words of God in Scripture. All the explanatory notes or catechisms or confessions or language aids in the world won’t do any good if God isn’t right there along side you helping you understand His own words.

Peace,

SR

[redleghunter]

I agree. When I want to see what godly men have to say I go with the older commentaries. Matthew Henry and Gill. They were spared the liberalism of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Received a Thompsom Chain many years ago as a gift. Having the OT references cited where they are used in the NT is good, but as years went on, I knew them and don’t really need a chain reference. For beginners a good deal.

[Heart-Rest]

"lol! Well, in my six decades I’ve known plenty of Protestant Christians, mostly Baptist. But I still don’t know any, not one, who specifically uses any kind of KJV study guide."

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The Baptists use this "NKJV" Study Bible:

   

"Holy Bible - Baptist Study Edition"