The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 13

¹²If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which ForeverOne your God gives you to dwell there, saying, ¹³Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known; ¹⁴then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you, ¹⁵you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is in it and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

¹⁶You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to ForeverOne your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

¹⁷Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that ForeverOne may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; ¹⁸when you shall listen to the voice of ForeverOne your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of ForeverOne your God.

Deuteronomy Chapter 14

¹You are the children of ForeverOne your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

²For you are a holy people to ForeverOne your God, and ForeverOne has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

³You shall not eat any abominable thing.

⁴These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, ⁵the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.

⁶Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.

⁷Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

⁸The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

Hosea Chapter 6

⁷But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

⁸Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

⁹As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the group of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

¹⁰In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

¹¹"Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

Hosea Chapter 7

¹When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

²They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

³They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

⁴They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

⁵On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

⁶For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

⁷They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

⁸Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

⁹Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.

¹⁰The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to ForeverOne their God, nor sought him, for all this.

¹¹"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

¹²When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

¹³Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

¹⁴They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

¹⁵Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

¹⁶They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Hosea Chapter 8

¹"Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over ForeverOne's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

²They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!' ³Israel has rejected what is good. The enemy will pursue him.

⁴They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

⁵Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

⁶For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

⁷For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

⁸Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

⁹For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

¹⁰But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 9

⁴For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁵For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

⁶Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

⁷Go your way - eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

⁸Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.

⁹Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

¹⁰Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

¹¹I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

¹²For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

¹³I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

¹⁴There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

¹⁵Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

¹⁶Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

¹⁷The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

¹⁸Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 10

¹Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

1 Peter Chapter 1

²²Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently, ²³having been born again, not of temporary seed, but of permanent, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

²⁴For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; ²⁵but ForeverOne's word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

1 Peter Chapter 2

¹So putting away all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, ²as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, ³if indeed you have tasted that ForeverOne is gracious: ⁴coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

⁵You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus AnointedOne.

⁶Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed." ⁷So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone," ⁸and, "a stumbling stone and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

¹⁰In the past, you were not a people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

¹¹Dear-ones, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; ¹²having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good actions, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹³So subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme; ¹⁴or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

¹⁵For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: ¹⁶as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

¹⁷Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.