The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for January 5:

First, from Genesis Chapter 3 verse 14 to Chapter 4 verse 8. Follow that by reading Joshua Chapter 6 verses 1 to 25. Follow that by reading Ruth Chapter 4 verses 5 to 22; and lastly from Matthew Chapter 4 verse 23 to Chapter 5 verse 20

You can read the passages below. If you're looking to read for a different day or want to use your own Bible, then here’s the entire year’s plan as a list. Enjoy!

For certain interesting words:

Section 1

Genesis 3:14-4:8

19 verses

Genesis Chapter 3

14ForeverOne God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel." 16To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." 17To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

18Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the plants of the field.

19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return." 20The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

21ForeverOne God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

22ForeverOne God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." 23Therefore ForeverOne God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

24So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis Chapter 4

1The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with ForeverOne's help." 2Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3As time passed, Cain brought an offering to ForeverOne from the fruit of the ground.

4Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. ForeverOne respected Abel and his offering, 5but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

6ForeverOne said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

7If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it." 8Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Section 2

Joshua 6:1-25

25 verses

Joshua Chapter 6

1Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

2ForeverOne said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.

3All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

4Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

5It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him." 6Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of ForeverOne." 7They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before ForeverOne's ark." 8It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before ForeverOne advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of ForeverOne followed them.

9The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

10Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout." 11So he caused the ark of ForeverOne to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of ForeverOne.

13The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of ForeverOne went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of ForeverOne. The trumpets sounded as they went.

14The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.

15It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

16It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for ForeverOne has given you the city!

17The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to ForeverOne. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

18But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

19But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to ForeverOne. They shall come into ForeverOne's treasury." 20So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

21They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her." 23The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

24They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of ForeverOne's house.

25But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Section 3

Ruth 4:5-22

18 verses

Ruth Chapter 4

5Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance." 6The near kinsman said, "I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can't redeem it." 7Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the [way of] attestation in Israel.

8So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." He took off his shoe.

9Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

10Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day." 11All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May ForeverOne make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

12Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which ForeverOne shall give you of this young woman." 13So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and ForeverOne gave her conception, and she bore a son.

14The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be ForeverOne, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.

15He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him." 16Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

17The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron, 19and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab, 20and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, 21and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed, 22and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

Section 4

Matthew 4:23-5:20

23 verses

Matthew Chapter 4

23Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

24The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

25Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

Matthew Chapter 5

1Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

2He opened his mouth and taught them, saying, 3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

4Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

5Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

7Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

10Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

11"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

12Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

13"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under people's feet.

14You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

15Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

16So, let your light shine before others that they may see your good work, and glorify your Father in heaven.

17"Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.

18For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one dot of an 'I' or cross of a 'T' shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

19So whoever breaks one of these least commandments and teaches others to do so, will be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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