How Should We Read the Bible?

Prayerfully and reverently, for in each word there is another drop of eternal truth, and all the words together make up the boundless ocean of the Eternal Truth. The Bible is not a book but life; because its words are “spirit and life” (John 6:63).

Therefore its words can be comprehended if we study them with the spirit of its spirit, and with the life of its life. It is a book that must be read with life—by putting it into practice. One should first live it, and then understand it.

Here the words of the Savior apply: “Whoever is willing to do it will understand that this teaching is from God” (John 7:17). Do it, so that you may understand it. This is the fundamental rule of Orthodox exegesis