I just started marking in one of my Bibles using a black micron and yellow highlighter. I’ve used color coded systems in the past but I get overwhelmed. So far I’ve really enjoyed the simplicity of only using one or two colors to just mark those passages and words which stand out, and to take notes.
It can be pretty overwhelming to mark with several colors. I love marking with a simple system. I started doing it about a year ago with my Allan ESV NCR. I'd like to read through that one again. You should do a video of your marking system.
I do yellow highlight for literally anything that stands out, and I do a green highlighter for anything that refers to Christ in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, I highlight green if its something that God answered my prayer or it applies directly to me in my current life. Its a very good system with only two colors. Although I really like your system hahaha. God bless.
Found your channel just now when searching for Schuyler bible colors. Great idea! I use a new bible to write my notes in each year. This year I opted to just stick to a black no bleed sharpie felt tip pen verses using any colored ink and it's so much less distracting, and quicker to add my notes as well. I also got some pastel muted tone bible highlighters and if I want to go back and highlight a verse I do so, without it being a distraction. I am planning on adding the Schuyler wide margin bible as my main note hub but I really don't want it to be too busy or distracting to read once my notes are in there. Thinking of going with a gray sharpie no bleed pen for that maybe and maybe a muted gray highlighting for the verses. When I am just reading through and don't want to add notes or markings, I will use post it flags to mark a scripture I want to come back to and/or use a mini notebook to write down the verse numbers and a quick thought or question I had to come back and dig into later during my study time.
I have been writing in my Bible since I was 4 years old, and I am now in my 60s. I use a pen in red or blue and a ruler. I often write at the bottom or the margins. As in confer with such or such book,page such and paragraph such. This ties in scripture with other books I have read. May God bless all this Thanksgiving. Pax
Thanks. I realized the highlighting at least with the bright colors was great while I was reading but prevented me from seeing what I highlighted afterwards because I would see the color shape on the page vs the highlighted words. Have been looking for 'minimalist' approaches to marking my Bible. I like the lighter highlighters and yellow. Cool how you can mark over it.
Another great video Joe! I like the one color system for the "one" Bible😉 Having always used a multi-color system, I like this simplified approach. Also, I like to use clear or at least see-thru rulers for underlining as it helps to see where I am on the page. This is especially helpful for making boxes around words. Just my 2 cents😄
I tried to use the see-thru rulers but I wasn't skilled enough to use them because they kept sliding on me. My NASB Schuyler has a few underlines that were missed. But I'm glad it works for you. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching the video.
I use only one color, but for slightly different reasons. Its a micron, a highlighter and ruler much like yours. But one color for me because I'm too cheap to buy more than one Micron at a time. I like these videos! Cant wait to see the multiple color one down the road.
I’m stealing your method. I’ve used a multi color system for the last year and this seems so relaxing I can’t wait to get started. I’ll be using my KJV sovereign collection.
Very nice and clean; I do like the advantages you pointed out to one color. For my wide margin I use 8 sharpie colors (sharpie pens, .4mm), and a black pigma micron 005 for writing notes. I also use a ruler haha
Great to see a different approach to all the different colours many people use. I did raise a virtual eyebrow when you had “less thinking” as an advantage! But you didn’t mean about the text so that’s great. Thanks for sharing.
Chris J Wilson is commenting on MY video??? What??? I love your channel! Thanks for the comment. Yeah, "less thinking" is about how having just one color helps me to not think too much about which color to use. I know the verse is important to me but sometimes a verse is loaded with meaning and covers several topics - grace? mercy? love? etc. So the one color helps me to go faster by thinking less about which color to underline something.
@@joesbibles5636 well this comment has made my day! Especially after such a long period of not posting. I can totally understand your perspective. In fact I’ve gone back to just using a pigma micron in my journal bible for similar reasons. It can be tricky to make a snap decision over which category something applies to especially as there may be something later in the chapter / section that adds more. By the way I insta-subscribed to your channel as I hadn’t see it before but I love what you are creating. Keep it up brother!
Thank you for covering this topic. When I first highlighted in a Bible, I used red. All I marked were prayers in scripture. The next Bible I used yellow, again, only highlighted prayers. Now, I use a five color system. It is working well. I don't think I will be changing soon.
Hi Joe! Thank you so much for doing this video. I've been looking at how to color code my Bible too to have a more in depth study of it, but I've become the frozen chosen with all of the methods that are out there that confuse me on which highlighters and pens or pencils to use. Now I have a wide margin Bible and haven't touched it because I don't know how to start coding it so I think I'm going to start with the one color system.😊
I like this approach. K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple, silly) is sometimes the best. I have tried to go to multiple colors and end up in a confused and confusing mess. I think this will help me.
K.I.S.S. - Yup! That's what I was going for - simplicity. The multi-color approach is a beast and sometimes hard to implement. Thanks for watching the video and commenting.
Great video. I have the Pigma Microns and so many colours but no idea where to start. I love the idea of keeping it simple to start and develop a system as I grow in faith. By the way I use a small ruler as well lol. God bless
That yellow underline looks great! I love underlining in my Bibles. Great video. Good point about the yellow not getting in the way for later read throughs.
This is exactly my thoughts too. Every time I get ambitious to use numerous colors I stall out as it interrupts my flow. I’m OCD. Also, I find darker colors distracting and worry that it will later get in the way of new thoughts. A single yellow is a great idea! I have a wide margin so will likely use only yellow in the text and black micron in the margin.
I’m color blind. It’s hard for me to differentiate between certain colors, so the one color technique works for me. I highlighted the important and popular verses in yellow.
I just use a black unipin fine pen 0.3 with a ruler for my Cambridge turquoise. That's it. The neatness of a simple marking system helps me not to be distracted and helps me preach with it. No fancy coloring system.
great idea, i simple want to mark things that stand out, if you underline in yellow and then highlight and then underline in black you get to have 3 goes at it
I have marked Bibles in the past and made notes but I no longer want to as I now prefer to keep my Bible free of marking and colours I make bible study notes in a notebook, and write verses out in a special journal that are especially meaningful I also now prefer to keep my Bible free of marking or notes because I now feel it shows respect for the sacredness of the text; the orginal scrolls would not have been marked It's also really not necessary there are other ways to achieve what you may be trying to do by marking such as a special note taking system in a notebook The more you have read and studied the Word and hopefully spen't time memorizing scripture the more you will find you will be able to recall or find what you may be looking for yourself or with the use of bible tools such as concordance etc Take very good care of your Bible because we are privileged in the western world to be able to afford more than one copy and also to have free access to a bible unlike those in persecuted countries or those who can't afford one and don't have access Whilst I can understand the practice of marking - it is also a joy to open your Bible free of marking so either way is ok as long as you are spending time in the Word and your primary focus is concentrating on the Word not colouring or a system to the detriment of the primary purpose of reading or study
Thanks for the comment. I do have different Bibles that I don't mark in. But for me, marking and writing in the Bible is a way of engaging with God in the Scriptures and not slavishly adhering to a system. I've read the Bible many, many times and God never fails to show me something new to change my character closer to His. The Bible is living and active, a deep well we can never exhaust. Thanks for stopping by.
@@joesbibles5636 Thanks Joe - You are right, I think it depends on the way the person is utilising the tool of marking and writing - I also agree it doesn't matter how many times you read the Bible God will always teach us, lead us, shepherd us, comfort us and correct us as we spend time in His Word. There is always something new to learn in The Word and yes as you said for Him to show us how we need to change to be more and more like Jesus Christ following in His perfect example. I actually only have two bibles I haven't marked - an interlinear my newest Bible, a small Good News and then I have 5 Bibles I have marked - A Good News my parents gave me as a child, a NIV, a Complete Jewish Bible, a NKJV and a NLT. My journey of faith in the God of the Bible and The One True Creator of this whole universe has had seasons as I was raised catholic then got involved in a pentecostal baptist church, then some other pentecostal churchs, then unfortunately got caught up in a church for about 9 years that I initially thought was true that I came to understand and accept was a cult (it was like a messianic church, a splinter group from the worldwide church of god, called the living church of god) so after that I needed to do some unlearning and I am not currently attending church - I did have a few other bibles which I have given to others to have - Sorry for the long reply though I greatly appreciate you replying to my comments. The one true constant in my life has been God and my faith - we all go through trials and triumphs and I have only gotten through by the grace of God, His answers to prayer, His Holy Spirit, His faithfulness and His love. Phiippians 4:13 There are a lot of so called christian You Tubers who unfortunately when you listen to their channel they either seem to be a worldly christian or not what I would consider biblical or on their you tube channel with a insta/influencer vibe and for the money or number of likes & I am greatly encouraged and empowered when I come across one like yourself who seems sincere and with their heart fixed on God and their channel like yours points you toward God not the person or things of the world. Aw I am so sorry this ended up so long. 😀
I use a 5-color colored pencil system for my everyday reading. Marking sermon tests and taking sermon notes or study group notes I do in black ballpoint; making notes in my private reading I do in blue ballpoint. It's so simple that it's easy to remember, and it looks pretty. 😊
It's so nice to see a Bible that does NOT look like someone was painting in it! Maybe it's a girl vs. guy thing? I'm a woman and can't stand that flowery / scrapbook thing people call "Bible journaling" these days. But, hey, to each their own. I've stopped highlighting/underlining/taking notes in my Bible these days. When I did, I also used a ruler because I can't draw or highlight straight lines to save my life. But the ink would always get on the edge of the ruler and make a mess either on the page or when I picked it up. Do you have that problem? I'm also apparently the only person on this planet that had a bad experience with Micron pens. It bled through, even though I was writing very lightly. It also dried out surprisingly quickly, even though I always kept it capped and inside a case. I've never found any pen that worked well for me for Bible underlining/note taking. Everyone swears by Micron, but it didn't work for me. Maybe I got a defective one? I don't know. I just remember being disappointed because everyone always said they worked so well and had no (or limited) show through/bleed through. Anyway, thank you. I love seeing neat looking Bibles/note taking and well cared for Bibles. "Well used" doesn't have to mean your Bible looks like it got chewed on by a puppy, torn up by a toddler, caught in a flood, or went through a war.
I tried to use different colors and a color system and I just couldn't do it. Just couldn't come up with a good code. So instead I only use two pens: a black Micron Pigma for underlining and note taking. And I use a yellow highlighter for highlighting. That's it. Ohhhh, yes, I am OCD as well and I use a clear ruler so I can see how far below the next line is. I use this system whether in my edc NASB Preachers Bible or in my stay at home NASB SCR WM Premium Bible. I use my system because like you said, you don't have to stop and think what color you need for underlining or writing your notes. Thanks for sharing your 1-color marking system. I am interested in your 9 to 10 color code system that you are in the process of creating. Blessings to you brother.
I like the simplicity of one color and for you to stick to a black Micron + a yellow highlighter is really good. The great thing about that is that it's not complicated and you can always find a black pen and a yellow highlighter. That's a big reason I'm using what I'm using in my The One. As for the 10-color code, that might be a while. I want to try it out first.
I really appreciate your video. I’m very OCD when it comes to marking my bible. To the point I’ll suffer it out and not mark any of my bibles ever even though I want to. This not benefiting from highlighting key verses and such. I’m not very good at highlighting or underlining without making it distracting. But this does help, and that’s one expensive bible you’ve got there. Thanks! I prefer just one color myself as I already own a rainbow study bible.
I might not use this simple style of yours, but your "beta" system have given me a significant push in the right direction of the different topics I'd prefer to highlight and focus on... God bless you, man!
I like this idea! I think I will try this in my Clarion. I want to mark it up but there isn’t much room for notes and I use a wide margin for more in-depth study anyway. Great video!
@@joesbibles5636 I’ve been using the ESV Single Column Legacy. I love the single column layout and the margins have plenty of room for notes (at least for me).
I'm inclined more towards highlighting than color-coding, so this system could work for me. Oh, and personally, I'm *CDO* which is essentially the same condition as OCD, but I prefer the letters of my acronym to be placed in their correct alphabetical order. ;-)
Highlights is what I mark up with my highlighter. It's usually a verse or word or phrase that really impacted me that day. And an underline is just something important I need to come back or would like to see easily when skimming a passage.
Within and throughout my Bible study time ✅ I’m figuring out “One” color at a time is much better these days 💠💎👑 Thank you Precious Joe for sharing excellent insight 🪴📖⛲️
I use a KJV Journal the Word Bible Large Print (has 2" margin). I use the pigma micron pens for writing and crayola twistables for highlighting. My color code (I write with color pens) is - Red for God, Christ, Holy Spirit; Pink for believers; Orange for antichrist, sin, negative consequences; Purple for salvation and Christ's righteousness; Blue for law and promises (prophecy) of God; Brown for the sanctuary, verses that speak of the Bible itself, and historical information; Green for when I write in Strongs Concordance definitions, other translations; or clarification for theological issues Black Micron pen is for any other types of notes. Just recently bought the yellow pigma micron pen so I'm deciding how I will use it.
I have settled on a two color system. I use a dull beige for the major parts - and a light gray for secondary parts. I tend to highlight single words and phrases, or parts - I seldom find myself highlighting a whole verse.
I have a navy blue cambridge concord that I use a blue Pixma micron to underline with and a blue gel highlighter that doesn't bleed through and I'm thinking about using them on my allan esv ncr2 in petrol blue.
It's all good. I keep my color code on an index card tucked in the front of the Bible or tucked in the back of the Bible. It is easy to forget what your colors mean. I feel ya!
Brother I've been searching for a scheme and I think you really honed in on what I need and its benefits (not spending time figuring out what color to use). My first time marking a Bible was in my first ESV and that was multi-colored using probably 5 popular higlighting colors, and I had somewhat of a scheme going but it is a bit distracting. After that I moved to the KJV and in my first KJV all I did was highlight in a single color (yellow) and underline (mostly pencil, some black fine tip and some red fine tip). I like how cleaner it looks. What I really want to know is, where can I find a good Bible with a yap and red edges like yours? I've always loved Bibles that look like that but I can never find them. Thanks for this video!!
One more thing I would point out and ask: have you tested to see how some colors would fair going on top of your pre-existing yellow colors? I ask because I've gone back and some of my highlights over my existing yellow makes the colors come out a little muddy and not the color you would expect. Wouldn't want to see you disappointed with the results!
Yeah, the yellow could be pretty faint. Mine is now becoming less and less dark because I've used it so much. But when I first got it it was pretty dark. At least for my eyes.
I’m with you on the pencil. Colors start looking bad & I feel like I’m messing up my Bible. I’d rather take notes in a separate notebook, to be honest.
I couldn’t do just one color. I need colors to be able to tell the difference in what I’m doing. I use 7 colors consistently. Words of God underlined in blue Words of Christ underlined in red References to the Trinity in an orange box Time reference underlined in Green Location reference underlined in brown Old Testament referendum in the NT underlined in yellow Prophecy underlined in pink.
I used to believe there was a "one" .... After being away from doing bible reviews I think the one for me might have happened....The full yapp Cambridge Concord ...or maybe a full yapp Schuyler PSQ nasb in grey ....or ..... See it's impossible, the one is being used 😉
So you’re a proponent of having The One? I’m interested in this concept. I know that there are those out there who advocate for using multiple Bibles. Do you find that there is an advantage to having the one or at least a main one? I saw the link to The One video-I’ll check it out but if there is anything you can add I’d appreciate it. Thank you and I get you with the OCD
I know you didn't ask for it but here are my thoughts. Probably, it would be best if you are doing a Bible in a year (or other timeframe) to read the scriptures from one Bible translation but if you ever feel the desire to see how something was translated in a different version either have the other version to hand physically (or use a study Bible with multiple translations within) or use an app such as Bible Gateway.
My Grandma has instead of a highlighter marker coloured tape which she uses in her KJV Bible. Seems like that may be a better idea for someone like me with bad hand eye coordination.
Hey, like your video. Always interested in seeing how other people study. I would recommend you look into zettelkasten (note box) study system. It is a useful method that can be customized to an individuals study and research to find conceptual relationships between ideas in large amounts of notes.
