The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 5

²⁸ForeverOne heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and ForeverOne said to me, "I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken.

²⁹Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

³⁰"Go tell them, Return to your tents.

³¹But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it." ³²You shall observe to do therefore as ForeverOne your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

³³You shall walk in all the way which ForeverOne your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

Deuteronomy Chapter 6

¹Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which ForeverOne your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; ²that you might fear ForeverOne your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

³Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as ForeverOne, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴Hear, Israel: ForeverOne is our God; ForeverOne is one: ⁵and you shall love ForeverOne your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

⁶These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; ⁷and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

⁸You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

⁹You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

Ezekiel Chapter 39

²³The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.

²⁴I acted according to their uncleanness and their transgressions; and I hid my face from them.

²⁵Therefore thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.

²⁶They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; ²⁷when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

²⁸They shall know that I am ForeverOne their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; ²⁹neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.

Ezekiel Chapter 40

¹In the twenty-fith year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, on the same day, the hand of ForeverOne was on me, and he brought me there.

²In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was, as it were, the frame of a city on the south.

³He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

⁴The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

⁵Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

⁶Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.

⁷Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed wide; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

⁸He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

⁹Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

¹⁰The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

¹¹He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; ¹²and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

¹³He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits; door against door.

¹⁴He also made posts of sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, around the gate.

¹⁵[From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

¹⁶There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.

¹⁷Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the pavement.

¹⁸The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

¹⁹Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.

Proverbs Chapter 26

¹³The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!" ¹⁴As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

¹⁵The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

¹⁶The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

¹⁷Like one who grabs a dog's ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

¹⁸Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, ¹⁹is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?" ²⁰For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

²¹As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

²²The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

²³Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

²⁴A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

²⁵When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

²⁶His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

²⁷Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

²⁸A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs Chapter 27

¹Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may produce.

²Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

³A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

⁴Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

⁵Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

⁶Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

⁷A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

⁸As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

⁹Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

¹⁰Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

¹¹Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

¹²A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

¹³Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

Hebrews Chapter 8

¹Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, ²a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which ForeverOne pitched, not man.

³For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

⁴For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law, ⁵who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain." ⁶But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

⁸For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says ForeverOne, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; ⁹not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them," says ForeverOne.

¹⁰"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says ForeverOne; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹¹They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know ForeverOne,' for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

¹²For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless actions no more." ¹³In that he says, "A new covenant", he has made the first old. But what is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

Hebrews Chapter 9

¹Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

²For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

³After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, ⁴having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; ⁵and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't speak now in detail.

⁶Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, ⁷but into the second the high priest alone, once a year not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

⁸The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

⁹This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect, ¹⁰being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.