The United Bible Societies' New Testament Handbook Series is a comprehensive verse by verse guide to understanding exactly what is being communicated by the author in the original Scriptures.

The Book of Daniel is very much like the New Testament book, the Revelation to John, both in its style and in its type of literature. The primary aim of each of these two books is to strengthen faith and to encourage believers in all times, regardless of what trials and persecutions they may face. They are the writings of a kind of nonviolent resistance movement. The challenge to understand the heart of the original Scriptures, in order to put the original text into a new language, was the impetus for the United Bible Societies to create handbooks for Bible translators working on this very thing. The United Bible Societies' Handbook Series is a comprehensive verse-by-verse guide to understanding exactly what is being communicated by the author in the original Scriptures.

The 1-3 John Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in 1-3 John Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like The Epistles of John (The New International Commentary on the New Testament | NICNT), Practical Illustrations: 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Augustine's Homilies on the First Epistle of John, and more.

The 1-3 John Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in 1-3 John Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like 1,2,3 John (Mentor Expository Commentary | MEC), 1, 2 & 3 John (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC), Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon, and more.

The Ephesians Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Ephesians Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like The Letter to the Ephesians (New International Commentary on the New Testament | NICNT), Paul, Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ: A Pauline Theology, 2nd ed., Commentaries on Galatians-Philemon (Ancient Christian Texts | ACT), and more.

The Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like Colossians and Philemon (Tyndale New Testament Commentary | TNTC), The Letter to the Colossians (The New International Commentary on the New Testament | NICNT), Exalting Jesus in Philippians (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary | CCE), and more.

The Galatians Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Galatians Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes , Galatians (New Covenant Commentary Series | NCCS), Galatians (Tyndale New Testament Commentary | TNTC), Paul and the Law: A Contextual Approach, and more.

The Galatians Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Galatians Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like The Letter to the Galatians (Bible in Medieval Tradition), Chrysostom's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, and Homilies on the Epistle to the Ephesians, Galatians (The IVP New Testament Commentary | IVPNTC), and more.

The Ezra-Nehemiah Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Ezra-Nehemiah Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes Be Determined: Nehemiah ("BE" Series), A Handbook on Ezra and Nehemiah (UBS Handbooks), Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (Holman Old Testament Commentary | HOTC), and more.

The Leviticus-Numbers Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Leviticus-Numbers Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes UBS Handbooks on Numbers and Leviticus, the Holman Old Testament Commentary (HOTC) volume Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Surveying the Pentateuch, and more.

The Deuteronomy Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Deuteronomy Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like The Book of Deuteronomy (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament | NICOT), Deuteronomy: The Commands of a Covenant God (Focus on the Bible | FB), Deuteronomy (Apollos Old Testament Commentary | AOT), and more.

The Leviticus-Numbers Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Leviticus-Numbers Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like Leviticus and Numbers, 2nd ed. from the New International Commentary on the Old Testament (NICOT), Leviticus (Apollos Old Testament Commentary | AOT), Numbers (Tyndale Old Testament Commentary | TOTC), and more.

The Deuteronomy Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Deuteronomy Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes A Handbook on Deuteronomy (UBS Handbooks), Be Equipped: Deuteronomy ("BE" Series), The World and the Word: An Introduction to the Old Testament , and more.

The Ruth Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Ruth Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes Judges and Ruth (Tyndale Old Testament Commentary | TOTC), A Handbook on Ruth (UBS Handbooks), Ruth & Esther: God Behind the Seen (Focus on the Bible Commentaries | FB), and more.

The Leviticus-Numbers Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Leviticus-Numbers Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like the New American Commentary (NAC) volumes Leviticus and Numbers, Leviticus (Tyndale Old Testament Commentary | TOTC), Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose (New Studies in Biblical Theology, vol. 23 | NSBT), and more.

The Deuteronomy Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Deuteronomy Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like Deuteronomy (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC), Deuteronomy (The Biblical Illustrator), The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative, and more.

The Nahum-Malachi Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Nahum-Malachi Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like multiple volumes fron the New International Commentary on the Old Testament (NICOT), Haggai, Zechariah, & Malachi (Apollos Old Testament Commentary | AOT), Glory in Our Midst, A Biblical-Theological Reading of Zechariah’s Night Visions, Habakkuk (The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary | THOTC), and more.

The Ezra-NehemiahEzra-Nehemiah Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Ezra-Nehemiah Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like Ezra and Nehemiah: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Asia Bible Commentary), Ezra & Nehemiah (Reformed Expository Commentary | REC), The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament | NICOT), and more.

The Ruth Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Ruth Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like Ruth & Esther (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC), Five Festal Garments: Christian Reflections on the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther (New Studies in Biblical Theology, vol. 10 | NSBT), Ruth (Apollos Old Testament Commentary | AOTC), and more.

The Esther Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Esther Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (IVP Bible Dictionaries), , , and more.

The Kings-Chronicles Expository Preaching Kit (L) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Kings-Chronicles Expository Preaching Kit (M) plus additional resources like 1 & 2 Chronicles (Mentor Commentaries | MENT), Understanding Biblical Kingdoms & Empires: An Introductory Atlas & Comparative View (Carta Understanding the Bible), 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles (Reformation Commentary on Scripture: OT, vol. V | RCS), and more.

The Kings-Chronicles Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Kings-Chronicles Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes UBS Handbooks on 1–2 Kings and 1-2 Chronicles, Surveying the Old Testament Historical Books (Learn the Word Bible Survey Series), The Problem of War in the Old Testament, and more.

The Nahum-Malachi Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Nahum-Malachi Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes UBS Handbooks Nahum through Malachi, Major Points from the Minor Prophets, and more.

The Esther Expository Preaching Kit (S) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . The Esther Expository Preaching Kit (S) also includes The Message of Esther: God Present but Unseen (Bible Speaks Today | BST), Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (Holman Old Testament Commentary | HOTC), Esther & Daniel (College Press NIV Commentary), and more.

The Esther Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Esther Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (The New American Commentary | NAC), Esther (Interpretation | INT), Wesleyan Bible Commentary, Vol. 1, Part 2: Joshua–Esther, and more.

The Ezra-Nehemiah Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Ezra-Nehemiah Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like Ezra and Nehemiah (Tyndale Old Testament Commentary | TOTC), Ezra’s Social Drama, Ezra and Nehemiah (College Press NIV Commentary), and more.

The Nahum-Malachi Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (IVP Bible Dictionaries), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Nahum-Malachi Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Malachi, 2 vols. (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC), The Annotated Bible, vol. 5: Daniel to Malachi, Calvin's Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, and more.

The Kings-Chronicles Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Kings-Chronicles Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like Exalting Jesus in 1 & 2 Kings (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary | CCE), Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose (New Studies in Biblical Theology, vol. 23 | NSBT), 1 & 2 Chronicles, 2 vols. (Tyndale Old Testament Commentary | TOTC), and more.

The Ruth Expository Preaching Kit (M) helps you plan an expositional sermon series with a trifecta of core resources in each of the Expository Preaching Kits: commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and sermon outlines. Each kit includes commentaries from Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) and the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (POSB), as well as reference resources like The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Bible Dictionary), and Carta's New Century Handbook and Atlas of the Bible . This kit includes everything in Ruth Expository Preaching Kit (S) plus resources like From Famine to Fullness: The Gospel According to Ruth (Gospel according to the Old Testament), Ruth, Jonah, Esther (Believers Church Bible Commentary | BCBC), The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative, and more.

The UBS Handbooks are detailed commentaries providing valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the books of the Bible. The text is discussed verse by verse, and is accompanied by running text in at least one modern English translation. Over the years, church leaders and Bible readers have found the UBS Handbooks to be useful for their own study of the Scriptures.