The Bible Reading Plan

Leviticus Chapter 25

⁸"'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

⁹Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

¹⁰You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

¹¹That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you mustn't sow, neither reap what grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

¹²For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

¹³"'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

¹⁴"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you mustn't wrong one another.

¹⁵According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

¹⁶According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

¹⁷Don't wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am ForeverOne your God.

¹⁸"'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

¹⁹The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell in it in safety.

²⁰If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;" ²¹then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall yield fruit for the three years.

²²You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

²³"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

²⁴In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

²⁵"'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem what his brother has sold.

²⁶If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it; ²⁷then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

²⁸But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

Isaiah Chapter 58

¹³"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of ForeverOne honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words: ¹⁴then you shall delight yourself in ForeverOne; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:" for the mouth of ForeverOne has spoken it.

Isaiah Chapter 59

¹Behold, ForeverOne's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear: ²but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

⁴None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and produce iniquity.

⁵They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and what is crushed breaks out into a viper.

⁶Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

⁸They don't know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made crooked paths; whoever goes there does not know peace.

⁹Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

¹¹We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: ¹³transgressing and denying ForeverOne, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

¹⁴Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

¹⁵Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. ForeverOne saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

¹⁶He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.

¹⁷He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

¹⁸According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.

¹⁹So shall they fear the name of ForeverOne from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of ForeverOne drives.

²⁰"A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob," says ForeverOne.

²¹"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says ForeverOne. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring's offspring," says ForeverOne, "from now on and forever."

Psalm 38

A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

¹ForeverOne, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

²For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

⁶I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

⁷For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

⁹LordOfMine, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

¹²They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

¹⁴Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵For in you, ForeverOne, do I hope. You will answer, LordOfMine my God.

¹⁶For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." ¹⁷For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

²⁰They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

²¹Don't forsake me, ForeverOne. My God, don't be far from me.

²²Hurry to help me, LordOfMine, my salvation.

Acts Chapter 25

¹³Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.

¹⁴As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix; ¹⁵about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

¹⁶I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

¹⁷So when they had come together here, I didn't delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought.

¹⁸When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed; ¹⁹but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

²⁰Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.

²¹But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar." ²²Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him." ²³So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

²⁴Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

²⁵But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him, ²⁶of whom I have no certain thing to write to my Lord. So I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.

²⁷For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him."

Acts Chapter 26

²"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews, ³especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. So I beg you to hear me patiently.

⁴"Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem; ⁵having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁶Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, ⁷which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

⁸Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?