# Bible study questions for small groups > Free discussion questions for 40 well-known Bible chapters, from John 3 to Psalm 23 and Romans 8. Each has a warm-up, what it says, what it means, what to do, and a line to pray. Print it or send it to your group. Source: https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions Each chapter has a warm-up question, then three parts: Look (what does it say?), Understand (what does it mean?), and Live it (what will we do?), with the verses each question comes from, and a line to close in prayer. ## The Gospels - [Matthew 2](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/matthew-2.md): Magi from the east follow a star to Jesus, Herod tries to kill the child, and the family runs to Egypt, then settles in Nazareth. - [Matthew 5](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/matthew-5.md): The start of the Sermon on the Mount: the blessings, salt and light, and Jesus on anger, lust, promises, revenge and loving enemies. - [Matthew 6](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/matthew-6.md): Jesus teaches about giving, praying and fasting in secret, gives the Lord’s Prayer, and tells his followers not to worry. - [Matthew 7](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/matthew-7.md): The end of the Sermon on the Mount: judging others, asking God, the narrow gate, good and bad fruit, and two builders. - [Matthew 25](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/matthew-25.md): Three teachings about the time Jesus comes back: the 10 bridesmaids, the servants given talents, and the sheep and the goats. - [Matthew 28](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/matthew-28.md): The women find the tomb empty and meet the risen Jesus, the guards are paid to lie, and Jesus sends his followers to all nations. - [Mark 1](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/mark-1.md): John the Baptist prepares the way, Jesus is baptized and tested, calls fishermen, and heals many in Capernaum. - [Mark 4](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/mark-4.md): Jesus tells the parable of the sower and other seed stories, then calms a storm on the lake. - [Mark 10](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/mark-10.md): Jesus talks about marriage, welcomes children, meets a rich man, predicts his death, teaches that the greatest serve, and heals blind Bartimaeus. - [Mark 13](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/mark-13.md): Jesus warns that the temple will fall, speaks of hard times ahead and his coming, and tells his followers to stay awake. - [Luke 1](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/luke-1.md): An angel tells Zechariah his son John will be born, then tells Mary she will bear Jesus. Mary visits Elizabeth and sings, and Zechariah sings at John’s birth. - [Luke 2](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/luke-2.md): Jesus is born in Bethlehem, angels tell shepherds, Simeon and Anna meet him in the temple, and at 12 he stays behind in his Father’s house. - [Luke 10](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/luke-10.md): Jesus sends out 72, tells the story of the good Samaritan, and visits Martha and Mary. - [Luke 15](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/luke-15.md): Jesus answers grumbling religious leaders with 3 stories of lost things: a sheep, a coin, and 2 sons. - [Luke 24](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/luke-24.md): The women find the tomb empty, the risen Jesus walks with 2 disciples to Emmaus, appears to the 11, and is taken up to heaven. - [John 1](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/john-1.md): The Word who was with God and was God becomes flesh. John the Baptist points to Jesus, and the first disciples follow him. - [John 3](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/john-3.md): Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night and hears about being born again. Jesus says God so loved the world. John the Baptist says he must become less. - [John 4](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/john-4.md): Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman at a well about living water and true worship. She tells her town, and many believe. Jesus heals an official’s son. - [John 11](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/john-11.md): Lazarus dies. Jesus comes late, talks with Martha and Mary, weeps, and calls Lazarus out of the tomb. The leaders plot to kill Jesus. - [John 15](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/john-15.md): On his last night, Jesus says he is the vine and his followers are the branches. He calls them friends and warns that the world will hate them. - [John 20](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/john-20.md): Mary Magdalene finds the empty tomb and meets Jesus. He appears to the disciples behind locked doors, and then to Thomas. - [John 21](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/john-21.md): The risen Jesus meets 7 disciples at the lake, fills their nets, cooks breakfast, and asks Peter 3 times, “Do you love me?” ## Psalms - [Psalm 1](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-1.md): Two ways to live: the person who delights in God’s teaching is like a tree by water. The wicked are like chaff the wind blows away. - [Psalm 23](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-23.md): David says the Lord is his shepherd, who leads, restores, walks with him through the darkest valley, and welcomes him to a table. - [Psalm 46](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-46.md): God is a refuge and strength, even if the earth shakes. There is a river that makes God’s city glad. Be still, and know that I am God. - [Psalm 51](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-51.md): David’s prayer after his sin with Bathsheba: a plea for mercy, a clean heart, and a renewed spirit. - [Psalm 103](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-103.md): David tells himself to bless the Lord and not forget what God has done: forgiving, healing, redeeming, and showing love as high as the heavens. - [Psalm 121](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-121.md): A pilgrim’s song: my help comes from the Lord, who does not sleep and guards your going out and coming in. - [Psalm 139](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-139.md): God knows David fully, is with him everywhere, made him in the womb, and is invited to search his heart. ## Romans - [Romans 5](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/romans-5.md): Made right with God by faith, we have peace with him. God shows his love in that Christ died for us while we were still sinners. - [Romans 8](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/romans-8.md): No condemnation for those in Christ. The Spirit gives life, makes us God’s children, and prays for us. Nothing can separate us from God’s love. - [Romans 12](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/romans-12.md): Paul urges believers to offer their lives to God, be renewed in mind, use their gifts in one body, love sincerely, and overcome evil with good. ## More of the Bible - [Genesis 1](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/genesis-1.md): God creates the heavens and the earth in 6 days by his word, makes people in his image, and calls it all very good. - [Isaiah 53](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/isaiah-53.md): The suffering servant is despised, carries our pain, is wounded for our wrongs, and is silent like a lamb. Christians read it as a picture of Jesus. - [Acts 2](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/acts-2.md): The Holy Spirit comes at Pentecost, Peter preaches, about 3,000 are baptized, and the first church shares life together. - [1 Corinthians 13](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/1-corinthians-13.md): Without love, gifts and sacrifices are nothing. Love is patient and kind. Faith, hope and love remain, and the greatest is love. - [Ephesians 2](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/ephesians-2.md): We were dead in sin, and God made us alive with Christ by grace through faith. Christ broke down the wall between Jews and Gentiles and made one people. - [Philippians 4](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/philippians-4.md): From prison, Paul tells the church to rejoice, not to be anxious but to pray, to think about what is good, and says he has learned to be content. - [Hebrews 11](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/hebrews-11.md): Faith is being sure of what we hope for. The chapter lists people who trusted God, many of whom died before they saw the promise. - [James 1](https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/james-1.md): James says to count trials as joy, ask God for wisdom, be quick to listen and slow to anger, and do the word, not only hear it.