How to read and how to pray

Select Chapters for Special Occasions

Blackwood’s Comprehensive Aids to the Study of the Bible · Vol. I, p. 59

Begins on Vol. I, p. 59

Particular Occasion	Appropriate Chapters
Affliction	Job xxiii.; Ps. xxvii., xlii.,cxix. 65-72, cxxx.; Lam. iii.; Rom. viii.; 2 Cor. iv.; Heb. xii.; Rev. xxi.
Baptism	Mark x. 13, etc.; Acts ii. 37, etc.
Birth-day	Ps. ciii., cxxxix.
Child-birth	1 Sam. i. 9, etc; Ps. cxxvii., cxxviii.
Death of Neighbors	Job xiv.; Eccles. ix., xii.
Death in the family	Ps. xxxix.; 1 Cor. xv.
Death of an aged man	Gen. l.
Death of a wife	Gen. xxiii.
Death of a child	2 Sam. xii. 15, etc.
Lying detected	Ps. ci.; Acts v.; Rev. xxi.
Marriage	John ii.; Eph. v.
New Year	Ps. ciii.
Pecuniary losses	Job i.
Recovery from	Job xlii.
Recovery from sickness	Ps. xxx., xci., ciii., cxvi., cxviii.; Isa. xxxviii.
Repentance	Josh. xxiv.; Ps. li., xxxii., lxxxviii., cxxx., cxxxix.
Sabbath-day	Ex. xvi.; Neh. xiii. 15, etc.; Ps. xxvii., lxxxiv., xcii., xcv., c., cxxii.
Servants newly hired	Col. iii.
Sickness	Ps. vi., xxiii., xxxviii., lxxxviii., cii.; Isa. xxxviii.; Rom. viii.; 2 Cor. v.; Rev. xxi.
Thanksgiving	Ps. ix., xxxiv., lxvi., lxxi., xcvii., ci., ciii., cxxxviii., cxlv., cxlvii.
Traveling	Ps. cxxi.
Youth leaving the family	Gen. xxxix.; Prov. i.-iv.; Eccles. xii.