The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 4

¹Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which ForeverOne, the God of your fathers, gives you.

²You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of ForeverOne your God which I command you.

³Your eyes have seen what ForeverOne did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, ForeverOne your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

⁴But you who clung to ForeverOne your God are all alive today.

⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as ForeverOne my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.

⁶Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." ⁷For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as ForeverOne our God is whenever we call on him?

⁸What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?

⁹Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children; ¹⁰the day that you stood before ForeverOne your God in Horeb, when ForeverOne said to me, "Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." ¹¹You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

¹²ForeverOne spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.

¹³He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.

¹⁴ForeverOne commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

Ezekiel Chapter 34

²⁵I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

²⁶I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

²⁷The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am ForeverOne, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

²⁸They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

²⁹I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.

³⁰They shall know that I, ForeverOne, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.

³¹You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.

Ezekiel Chapter 35

¹Moreover the word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ²Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, ³and tell it, Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

⁴I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am ForeverOne.

⁵Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; ⁶therefore, as I live, says LordOfMine ForeverOne, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

⁷Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

⁸I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.

⁹I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am ForeverOne.

¹⁰Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas ForeverOne was there: ¹¹therefore, as I live, says LordOfMine ForeverOne, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.

¹²You shall know that I, ForeverOne, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour.

¹³You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

¹⁴Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

¹⁵As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am ForeverOne.

Ezekiel Chapter 36

¹You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of ForeverOne.

²Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession; ³therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; ⁴therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of LordOfMine ForeverOne: Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; ⁵therefore thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to throw it out for a prey.

Proverbs Chapter 22

¹A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

²The rich and the poor have this in common: ForeverOne is the maker of them all.

³A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

⁴The result of humility and the fear of ForeverOne is wealth, honor, and life.

⁵Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

⁷The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

⁹He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

¹⁰Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

¹¹He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king's friend.

¹²The eyes of ForeverOne watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

¹³The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!" ¹⁴The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under ForeverOne's wrath will fall into it.

¹⁵Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

¹⁶Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

¹⁷Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

¹⁹That your trust may be in ForeverOne, I teach you today, even you.

²⁰Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge, ²¹To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

²²Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court; ²³for ForeverOne will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

²⁴Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger: ²⁵lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

²⁶Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

²⁷If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

²⁸Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

²⁹Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

Hebrews Chapter 2

⁹But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

¹⁰For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

¹¹For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹²saying, "I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise." ¹³Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me." ¹⁴Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he himself in a similar way also shared in it, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, ¹⁵and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to slavery.

¹⁶For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham.

¹⁷So he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

¹⁸For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Hebrews Chapter 3

¹So, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus, ²who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

³For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

⁴For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

⁵Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, ⁶but the AnointedOne is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

⁷So, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, ⁸don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, ⁹where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my actions for forty years.

¹⁰So I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;' ¹¹as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"