The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 11

¹⁸Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

¹⁹You shall teach them your children, talking 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.

²⁰You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates; ²¹that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which ForeverOne swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

²²For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love ForeverOne your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him; ²³then will ForeverOne drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

²⁴Every place where the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hind sea shall be your border.

²⁵No man shall be able to stand before you: ForeverOne your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.

²⁶Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: ²⁷the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of ForeverOne your God, which I command you today; ²⁸and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of ForeverOne your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

²⁹When ForeverOne your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

³⁰Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

³¹For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which ForeverOne your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell there.

³²You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.

Ezekiel Chapter 48

⁸By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

⁹The offering that you shall offer to ForeverOne shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in width.

¹⁰For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of ForeverOne shall be in its midst.

¹¹[It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

¹²It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

¹³Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.

¹⁴They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to ForeverOne.

¹⁵The five thousand that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

¹⁶These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

¹⁷The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

¹⁸The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

¹⁹Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

²⁰All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

²¹The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

²²Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of what is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

²³As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

²⁴By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

²⁵By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

²⁶By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

²⁷By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

²⁸By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

²⁹This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.

³⁰These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure; ³¹and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

³²At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

³³At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

³⁴At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

³⁵It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ForeverOne is there.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 5

¹Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

²Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

³For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

⁴When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

⁵It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

⁶Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

⁷For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

⁸If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

⁹Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

¹⁰He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

¹¹When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

¹²The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

¹³There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

¹⁴Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

¹⁵As he came out from his mother's womb, naked he shall go again as he came, and shall take nothing which he may carry away in his hand for his labor.

¹⁶This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so he shall go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

¹⁷All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

¹⁸Behold, what I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

¹⁹Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor - this is the gift of God.

²⁰For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

James Chapter 3

¹Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

²For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn't stumble in word is a perfect man, able to control the whole body as well.

³Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

⁴Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

⁵So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

⁶And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

⁷For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; ⁸but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

⁹With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

¹⁰Both blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

¹¹Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

¹²Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

¹³Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his actions are done in gentleness of wisdom.

¹⁴But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

¹⁵This wisdom is not what comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

¹⁶For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

¹⁸Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.