SOAP Bible Study Templates PDF: A Powerful Tool for Engaging with Scripture, Observing, Applying and Praying, for Personal or Group Study.
The SOAP Bible study method is a popular tool many Christians use to help them engage with and apply the teachings found in the Bible. The acronym SOAP stands for Scripture, Observation, Application, and Prayer. With this method, you begin by selecting a passage of scripture and then write out the verse or verses that stand out to you. Next, you make observations about the text, such as its meaning, context, and important themes or ideas. After that, you consider how you can apply the insights gleaned from the passage to your life, and finally, you conclude with a prayer asking God for guidance and help in applying what you have learned.
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Using Your Favorite Bible Verses with SOAP Bible Study Templates
If you want to delve deeper into the Bible’s teachings, the SOAP Bible Study Templates can be an excellent tool. By selecting a favorite verse, you can apply its message to your everyday life, better comprehend the Bible’s teachings, and repeat the process with different verses for a more profound understanding. You can also find separate 8.5 x 11 stationery/notepaper for the favorite verses at: 118 Bible Study Notepapers Featuring Favorite Bible Verses
- Genesis 1:1 NIV – In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:27 NIV – So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
- Exodus 23:25 NIV – Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,
- Numbers 6:24-26 NIV – “The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”
- Deuteronomy 6:6-7 NIV – These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV – “The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
- Joshua 1:9 NIV – Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
- 1 Chronicles 16:34 NIV – Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14 NIV – “But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV – if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
- Psalm 1:1-3 NIV – Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither–whatever they do prospers.
- Psalm 20:4 NIV – May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
- Psalm 23:1-6 NIV – A psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He . makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
- Psalm 42:11 NIV – Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
- Psalm 46:10 NIV – He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
- Psalm 56:3 NIV – When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
- Psalm 73:26 NIV – My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Psalm 91:11 NIV – For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
- Psalm 119:105 NIV – Nun Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
- Psalm 121:7-8 NIV – The LORD will keep you from all harm–he will watch over your life; 8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
- Psalm 133:1 NIV – A song of ascents. Of David. How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!
- Psalm 143:8 NIV – Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.
- Psalm 145:18 NIV – The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
- Psalm 150:6 NIV – Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.
- Proverbs 3:3-6 NIV – Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
- Proverbs 4:23 NIV – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
- Proverbs 11:25 NIV – A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
- Proverbs 16:3 NIV – Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
- Proverbs 17:9 NIV – Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
- Proverbs 17:17 NIV – A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
- Proverbs 18:16 NIV – A gift opens the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.
- Proverbs 21:21 NIV – Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.
- Proverbs 22:6 NIV – Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
- Proverbs 27:19 NIV – As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.
- Isaiah 9:6 NIV – For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 25:1 NIV – LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.
- Isaiah 40:29 NIV – He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
- Isaiah 40:31 NIV – but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
- Isaiah 41:10 NIV – So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:13 NIV – For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
- Isaiah 49:15-16 NIV – “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 NIV See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
- Isaiah 53:5 NIV – But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
- Jeremiah 15:13 NIV – “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without charge, because of all your sins throughout your country.
- Jeremiah 17:7-8 NIV – “But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
- Jeremiah 29:11-12 NIV – For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
- Habakkuk 3:17-18 NIV – Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
- Matthew 6:14 NIV – For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- Matthew 6:33 NIV – But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Matthew 11:28 NIV – “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 19:14 NIV – Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
- Matthew 28:19-20 NIV – Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
- Mark 9:23 NIV – “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
- Mark 10:27 NIV – Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
- Mark 11:24 NIV – Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- John 3:16 NIV – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 10:10 NIV – The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
- John 11:25-26 NIV – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
- John 11:40 NIV – Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
- John 14:6 NIV – Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
- John 14:27 NIV – Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
- John 16:33 NIV – “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
- Acts 16:25 NIV – About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
- Acts 16:31 NIV – They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved–you and your household.”
- Romans 3:23 NIV – for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
- Romans 8:28 NIV – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- Romans 12:1-2 NIV – Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God–this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- Romans 12:12 NIV – Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
- Romans 15:13 NIV – May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 1:10 NIV – I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NIV – Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV – No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
- 1 Corinthians 13:2 NIV – If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NIV – Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV – Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV – Do everything in love.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV – Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- 2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV – For we live by faith, not by sight.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
- 2 Corinthians 7:1 NIV – Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
- 2 Corinthians 8:12 NIV – For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
- 2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV – Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
- 2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV – We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV – But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
- Galatians 3:26-27 NIV – So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- Galatians 5:22-23 NIV – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
- Ephesians 2:8-10 NIV – For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Ephesians 3:20 NIV – Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
- Ephesians 4:2 NIV – Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- Ephesians 4:32 NIV – Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Ephesians 5:15-16 NIV – Be very careful, then, how you live–not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
- Ephesians 6:11-12 NIV – Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- Philippians 2:3 NIV – Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
- Philippians 4:6-8 NIV – Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.
- Philippians 4:13 NIV – I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
- Colossians 3:14 NIV – And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
- Colossians 3:23-24 NIV – Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
- Colossians 4:2 NIV – Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11 NIV – Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV – Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
- 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV – For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
- 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV – All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
- Hebrews 4:12 NIV – For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
- Hebrews 4:16 NIV – Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
- Hebrews 10:24-25 NIV – And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- Hebrews 11:1 NIV – Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- Hebrews 11:6 NIV – And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
- Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV – Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- James 1:3 NIV – because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
- James 1:6 NIV – But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
- James 1:22 NIV – Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
- 1 Peter 2:9 NIV – But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
- 1 Peter 5:7-8 NIV – Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
- 1 John 1:9 NIV – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- 1 John 4:16 NIV – And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- 1 John 4:19 NIV – We love because he first loved us.
- 1 John 5:14 NIV – This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.