Have you ever begun a study of some subject thinking when you have finish you will draw a particular conclusion? We all read, write or listen certain biases or presuppositions. When the research is complete however something entirely different is discovered. Several years ago I set out to find what insight could be gleaned from the Bible concerning the characteristics of a godly person. There are many books and scores of articles written about this very subject, but as usual with my studies I believe te best way to get mean for ones own life is to dive in for yourself. This was not done to force my thoughts on the Scriptures but to see what they had to say. Over a course of two years and making over 5000 notations, some as short as one word to others several paragraphs long, and building a cross reference to all the key qualities I had my answer. There were two questions that I asked after finishing my work. The first was, can a person live such a life? The second was how to boil the entire exercise down to it very essence? The answer to the first that know man or woman, except Jesus, could ever hope to live out a godly life on his or her own. It takes the grace of God to overlook our many failures as we seek to serve Him. Someone asked me the second question. My answer was that all the characteristics led to the conclusion that the entire Bible is about loving God and loving man.