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Psalm 1 Bible study questions

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.

Read Psalm 1

Read the chapter aloud first. Then take the questions in order: what it says, what it means, what to do. About 45 minutes. Skip any question that doesn’t fit your group.

Start here

  1. Where is a place outdoors that makes you feel at peace?

Look: what does it say?

  1. What 3 things does the blessed person not do?Psalm 1:1
  2. What does the blessed person delight in, and when?Psalm 1:2
  3. What is the tree like, and what is chaff like?Psalm 1:3-4

Understand: what does it mean?

  1. Notice walk, stand, sit. What does that order suggest about how people drift?Psalm 1:1
  2. What does it mean to ponder God’s law day and night?Psalm 1:2
  3. Why does the psalm say the Lord knows the way of the righteous?Psalm 1:6

Live it: what will we do?

  1. Whose advice shapes you most? Is it leading you toward God or away?Psalm 1:1
  2. What is one small way to keep Scripture in your mind through the day?Psalm 1:2
  3. Where do you feel dry right now? What would it mean to put down roots by the water?Psalm 1:3

Close in prayer

Ask God to make each person like a tree by streams of water.

Psalm 1

Lumin Translation. It prints after the questions, so the group has the words in front of them.

1 Blessed is the one who does not walk by the advice of the wicked, or stand on the path of sinners, or sit where mockers gather.

2 Instead, Yahweh’s law is their delight, and they ponder his law day and night.

3 Such a person is like a tree planted by channels of water, which bears its fruit when its season comes and whose leaf does not wither; in everything they do, they succeed.

4 The wicked are not like this; they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

5 That is why the wicked will not hold their ground in the judgment, nor sinners in the gathering of the righteous.

6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked ends in ruin.

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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