ABC's of Scripture

This summer I'm interning at an Evangelical Free Church and this coming Tuesday we're beginning a Bible Study group for teens looking to learn more from the Bible. Thus we're going to start by looking at what Scripture has to say about itself. We're going to due an overview of Psalm 119, which has the most verses in the Bible (176) and all 176 verses are on the attributes Scripture.

For a little background, I'm going to remind everyone what Mr. Branscombe taught us. The 176 verses can be grouped int passages of 8 verses and beginning with verse each group of 8 verses is a letter in the Hebrew alphabet. We can go through the Hebrew alphabet from Aleph to Taw.

To prepare for the Bible Study I went through the 176 verses and found as many references I could find that ascribe an attribute to Scripture. After I listed them I found some commonality in them so I plotted them into a spread sheet such as that of below:

How 2 Live	Morality	Encouragement	Knowledge
Advice	Purity	Inspiration for the reader	Understanding
Direction	Righteous	Comfort	Make Wise
Instruction	Just/Fair	Hope	Discernment
Guidance	Perfect	Promises
Teaching	Trustworthy
Discipline

Reality	Greatness	Experience
Right	Sustaining & Life Giving	Pleasing
Truth	Awesome/Wonderful	Treasure
	Eternal	Happiness
		My Delight

I was surprised how easily these grouped together and also noticed some commonalities Psalm 176 has with II Timothy 3:16, which reads: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.