The Bible Reading Plan

Numbers Chapter 1

²⁰The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; ²¹those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

²²Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; ²³those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

²⁴Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; ²⁵those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

²⁶Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; ²⁷those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.

²⁸Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; ²⁹those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

³⁰Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; ³¹those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

³²Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; ³³those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

Jeremiah Chapter 3

²²Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are ForeverOne our God.

²³Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in ForeverOne our God.

²⁴But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

²⁵Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against ForeverOne our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of ForeverOne our God."

Jeremiah Chapter 4

Psalm 51

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

¹Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

²Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

³For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

⁴Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

⁵Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

⁶Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

⁷Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

⁸Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

⁹Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.

¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

¹⁴Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

¹⁵LordOfMine, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

¹⁶For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

¹⁸Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

¹⁹Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

Romans Chapter 3

⁹What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

¹⁰As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

¹²They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one." ¹³"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips." ¹⁴"Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." ¹⁵"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways.

¹⁷The way of peace, they haven't known." ¹⁸"There is no fear of God before their eyes." ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

²⁰Because by the actions of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; ²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus AnointedOne to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, ²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; ²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in AnointedOne Jesus; ²⁵whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; ²⁶to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

²⁷Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of actions? No, but by a law of faith.

²⁸So we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the actions of the law.

²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, ³⁰since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

³¹Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Romans Chapter 4

¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

²For if Abraham was justified by actions, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

³For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." ⁴Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

⁵But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.