The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 11

¹Therefore you shall love ForeverOne your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

²Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of ForeverOne your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, ³and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; ⁴and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how ForeverOne has destroyed them to this day; ⁵and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; ⁶and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: ⁷but your eyes have seen all the great work of ForeverOne which he did.

⁸Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; ⁹and that you may prolong your days in the land, which ForeverOne swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; ¹¹but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky, ¹²a land which ForeverOne your God cares for: the eyes of ForeverOne your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

¹³It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love ForeverOne your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹⁴that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

¹⁵I will give plants in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; ¹⁷and the anger of ForeverOne be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which ForeverOne gives you.

Ezekiel Chapter 47

⁶He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

⁷Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

⁸Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

⁹It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.

¹⁰It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

¹¹But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

¹²By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

¹³Thus says the Lord ForeverOne: This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.

¹⁴You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.

¹⁵This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; ¹⁶Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

¹⁷The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

¹⁸The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

¹⁹The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

²⁰The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

²¹So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.

²²It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

²³It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord ForeverOne.

Ezekiel Chapter 48

¹Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

²By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

³By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

⁴By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

⁵By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

⁶By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

⁷By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

Ecclesiastes Chapter 4

¹Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

²Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

³Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

⁴Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

⁵The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

⁶Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

⁷Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

⁸There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

⁹Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

¹⁰For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.

¹¹Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

¹²If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

¹³Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

¹⁴For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

¹⁵I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

¹⁶There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was - yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

James Chapter 2

¹My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne of glory with partiality.

²For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, ³and you pay special attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;" ⁴haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

⁵Listen, my dear brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

⁶But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

⁷Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

⁸However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

⁹But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

¹¹For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do murder, you have still become a transgressor of the law.

¹²So speak and act as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

¹³For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no actions? Can faith save him?

¹⁵If a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, ¹⁶and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" but didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

¹⁷Even so faith, if it has no actions, is dead in itself.

¹⁸Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have actions." Show me your faith without actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions.

¹⁹You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

²⁰But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from actions is dead?

²¹Wasn't Abraham our father justified by actions, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

²²You see that faith worked with his actions, and by actions faith was perfected.

²³So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness," and he was called the friend of God.

²⁴You see then that by actions, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

²⁵In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by actions, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from actions is dead.