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Most people who own a Bible are familiar with bible concordances.  They are familiar with one because many Bibles have a small Bible concordance in the back — it serves as a kind of a brief index or handy verse-finder.  However, be aware of the fact that these are quite small and limited — a truly exhaustive concordance will require a volume unto itself — it will be many hundreds of pages in length, and many of the published concordances are quite massive.  Serious Bible students who need a concordance of the Bible will almost certainly need a separate, and exhaustive concordance in order to properly research and discover all of the Bible references dealing with a particular subject or topic.

Many Bible students are very wary of purchasing doctrinal or theological reference guides. Primarily, there are several reasons for this — for one thing these types of books are often very difficult to read. For another, theological reference books are not written from an objective point of view — rather than simply presenting Bible facts, and the attempt to argue for or defend a particular point of view. But there is really no need to worry — if you know there may be these kinds of issues, then you can be on your guard and filter out the facts from all the opinions as you read.