The table below lists the abbreviations used to navigate to a particular verse in the ESV Study Bible, Kindle Edition.
| Old Testament | New Testament | ||||
| ge ex le nu de jos jdg ru 1sa 2sa 1ki 2ki 1ch 2ch |
ezr ne es job ps pr ec so is je la eze da ho |
joe am ob jon mic na hab zep hag zec mal |
mt mk lk jn ac ro 1co 2co ga eph php col 1th 2th |
1ti 2ti ti phm heb jam 1pe 2pe 1jn 2jn 3jn jud rev |
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Good news: We’ve released a significant update for the ESV Study Bible, Kindle Edition, and it includes a feature that allows you to quickly navigate to any verse.
If you own a previous version of the ESV Study Bible, Kindle Edition, you’ll want to replace it with the new file; you may have to go to Amazon.com’s “Manage Your Kindle” page to reinstall it. Please note that because this is an entirely new file, any notes and highlighting that you’ve made on an earlier version will be lost.
To quickly access to a verse, first open up the ESV Study Bible and click the “menu” button, and then the “index” option. Then start typing the book (using 2- or 3-letter abbreviations) and the chapter and the verse (each separated by spaces). Then click on the “find” button. That’s it!
You can read more detailed navigation instructions in the “How to Use the ESV Study Bible, Kindle Edition” section of the eBook, which you access by going to “Menu > Go To > Beginning.”
This may be a good time to also update your Kindle operating system; you can find the latest Kindle OS on Amazon’s site.
Note: The new navigation feature doesn’t work on the 1st Generation Kindle.
We really appreciate your constructive criticism; without it, we may not have revisited the ESV Study Bible’s navigation as quickly. Please leave additional feedback below, and we’ll do our best to answer your questions and pass your concerns along to our developers.
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Do you have an iPad? Kindle? Click on Amazon or iTunes to download your free copy of Healing for a Broken World: Perspectives on Public Policy by Steven Monsma. Offer ends March 31, 2011.
What’s Healing for a Broken World about?
What does it mean to a Christian citizens? How can we respond to contemporary public policy issues such as genocide, global AIDS, global warming, and human trafficking according to Scripture rather than political agendas?
With American evangelicals having more political influence than ever before, this book is especially important. Author Steve Monsma establishes the foundational biblical principles that are relevant to our lives as Christian citizens no matter the topic. His book will equip all believers to make godly, humanitarian choices rather than purely political ones.
Our new ESV Economy Bible includes a couple of very practical articles for new believers and those interested in the Christian faith. Among them is a Plan of Salvation, an excerpt of which is published below.
From the first chapters of Genesis through the closing scenes in Revelation, the Bible is the book of God’s salvation. From start to finish, its one unifying theme is that of grace and forgiveness for sinners through God’s redeeming work in Jesus Christ. Whatever else you gain through the reading of the Bible, it would be tragic if you missed the heart of its message for you — God’s gracious provision of Jesus Christ as the atonement for sin.
In The Beginning
When God created the heavens and the earth, His work was perfect and pure. God looked upon all He had created and judged it to be “very good” (Genesis 1:31). He took great pleasure in what He made, and the culmination of His creation came with Adam and Eve. They were made in the very image of God, which made them capable of having fellowship with God and bringing glory to His name (Genesis 1:27).
In the Garden of Eden, however, through deception and disobedience adam and Eve sinned against God, causing a break in their relationship with Him. Sin is real, and sin is deadly. The guilt that resulted from their disobedience caused Adam and Eve to hide from God and to attempt to cover their personal shame. Because they had disobeyed God’s command, they were now flawed and shameful in God’s presence.
Adam deliberately chose a path of self-will and rebellion, which brought sin and death — including spiritual death — into the world. “. . . sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned” (Romans 5:12) — the whole human race is affected by Adam’s sin.
To cover the shame and nakedness of adam and Eve, the lord made coats from an animal’s skin for them to wear (Genesis 3:21). God thus made the first sacrifice, and it followed the clear promise of a Redeemer when God pronounced these words of judgment upon the serpent, or Satan: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel” (Genesis 3:15). This prophetic word speaks of Jesus Christ and His death on the cross of Calvary.
The Story of Redemption
So the story of redemption and sacrifice begins, and it is repeated throughout the Word of God, culminating in the coming of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on our behalf. We discover through the Bible that a personal relationship with God is not dependent on good works that we do, or on church membership, or even on living a highly moral life. Rather, God’s amazing grace is the fountain through which redemption flows to us.
Separated from God by sin and guilt, we all face two primary spiritual needs. First, we need to be restored to fellowship with God. We are truly guilty before God, and somehow we must find forgiveness. We must face the problem of our sin, and there is no answer to this need within ourselves. The only answer is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Second, we need power to change our lives.
You may download and read the entire article as an Adobe Acrobat PDF, or read it within the pages of the ESV Economy Bible.
If you have an iPad, Kindle, Kindle for Mac, or any way to read a PDF, get a free eBook of John Piper’s A Hunger for God from churchleaders.com or desiringgod.org.
“The greatest adversary of love to God is not his enemies but his gifts. And the most deadly appetites are not for the poison of evil, but for the simple pleasures of earth. For when these replace an appetite for God himself, the idolatry is scarcely recognizable, and almost incurable. . . .
Therefore, when I say that the root of Christian fasting is the hunger of homesickness for God, I mean that we will do anything and go without anything if, by any means, we might protect ourselves from the deadening effects of innocent delights and preserve the sweet longings of our homesickness for God.” (A Hunger for God, pages 14-15).
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