Context in Bible Study

Examining the verse:

• Instant: the entire verse; 

• Near Immediate: preceding and following verse;
• Distant Immediate: the entire Pericope;

• Near Distant: the entire chapter;
• Intermediate Distant: the entire book;
• Far Distant: The set of books:

1. Torah;
2. Poetry;
3. Major Prophets;
4. Minor Prophets;
5. History;
6. Gospels;
7. Pauline Epistles;
8. Catholic Epistles;
9. Prophecy;

• The Testament: 
1. The Tanakh;
2. The New Testament;
3. The Anagignoskomena;

• The Bible: the entire canon:
1. The Muslim Canon;
2. The Restoration Movement Canon;
3. The Protestant Canon;
4. The Catholic Canon;
5. The Lutheran Canon;
6. The Anglican Canon;
7. The Orthodox Christian Canon;
8. The Oriental Christian Canon;
9. The non-Chalcedonian Canon;

Bible study that ignores each of these types of context, is Bible study as pretext.