A. The Bible is His written revealed will:

PSA 119:105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

ROM 2:18. And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

2TIM 3:16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

DEU 29:29. The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

PSA 119:128. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

JOH 5:39. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

ACT 17:11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

1TIM 3:14. These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

1TIM 3:15. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

B. Warning against not obeying the Word:

PRO 28:9. He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

ISA 8:20. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

C. Beware of interpreting it as you please:

2PE 1:20. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

2PE 3:16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

ISA 28:10. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

LUK 10:25. And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

LUK 10:26. He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

D. Read & study the Word carefully:

NEH 8:8. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

MAT 9:13. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

2TIM 2:15. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

E. When a verse speaks specifically directly to you:

PSA 103:20. Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

PSA 119:130. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

PSA 119:133. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

PRO 6:22. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

PRO 6:23. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

LUK 24:32. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

ACT 2:37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

F. Pray & ask the Lord to help you understand:

PSA 119:18. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

PSA 119:34. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

PSA 119:35. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

PRO 2:3. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

PRO 2:4. If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

PRO 2:5. Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

PRO 2:6. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

PRO 2:7. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

PRO 2:8. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

PRO 2:9. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

PRO 2:10. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

PRO 2:11. Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

LUK 24:45. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

G. Ask mature Christians to explain difficult passages to you:

ACT 8:30. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

ACT 8:31. And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

ACT 8:32. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

ACT 8:33. In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

ACT 8:34. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?