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I  think most (Not all) Bibles distributed  for free are treated as being worth exactly what  was paid for them, by those that receive one. A very few will be kept, never mind read. Might pray for God to lead some individual(s) into interest about Him, and for opportunity to go through the Bible verse by verse with that few that are called by the Holy Spirit to come and understand what the Bible reveals first. Otherwise might just have tracts and pass them out, few will read them,  but at least they won't clog the toilet if tossed in. Evangelism  is a long haul slog  more than a quick "here's a Bible God bless" moment.  Yes start with prayer,  add much thinking, and reading the word itself,  pray and wait on the lead of the Lord through the Holy  Spirit. That is my thought on the question posed in the thread opening.

Without the Old testament there is no basis for the New Covenant. Yeshua is found revealed within all of the Bible, that is what the Bible does- reveal Yeshua.

And yet God led me to first read Job. Go figure. As to the Gideon's, the first Bible I read was a Gideon provided  Bible at the motor hotel we operated at the time.  There were 145 Gideon Bibles complete with Old testament and new covenant available to me, all provided by the Gideons at no cost; and one day I was led to read within one of them.  They were complete Bibles.

Are you giving Bibles to believers only? In my missions course we were taught:  For unbelievers and newer Christians it is always recommended for them to start reading the Gospel of John first. The Gospel of John has many sayings from Jesus and confirms His deity.

Why do you say true believers? That is partial rapture. Only the true believers get raptured. Some of the ones who believe but are not right with God get a second chance, but that's based on Ken Peters' dream. A man said he had not been right with God, shared the Gospel to him, 2 weeks after he got that dream he got saved and in the dream he got saved and that man was a leader in the revival during the trib. That's maybe Luke 12: Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. 38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would [g]have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” 41 Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?” 42 And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food [h]in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. The virgins are not unbelievers. They were going oit to meet the bridegroom and virgins. I read once that a translation says their lamps had gone out. Are going out or had gone out, they had oil in the past. For instance someone serves God but then divorces, takes offense, is full of hate and lives in sin with someone else. And then is the rapture. This person will miss it cause he or she backslid. But that's not bad enough to lose your salvation. I know cause I came back. But there is a chance to get killed by a bomb and go to hell if your mom doesnt pray or if youmake it to end up like that guy who later got his head cut off too in the dream. But he did have revival and got a part of the uncountable multitude in. Why would He warn us to watch if we get raptured anyway? The deception is just satan always lying to young believers that they are not good enough. I believe a baby christian who just got saved a day ago will get raptured. No wait. Luke 12, comes back from the wedding, that is about the end when there are no 2nd chances anymore. Cut him in half does not sound like there's a second chance. He says it in Revelation 16:15 too.