The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 20

¹⁵Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

¹⁶But of the cities of these peoples, that ForeverOne your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; ¹⁷but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as ForeverOne your God has commanded you; ¹⁸that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against ForeverOne your God.

¹⁹When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

²⁰Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

Deuteronomy Chapter 21

¹If one be found slain in the land which ForeverOne your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him; ²then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain: ³and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; ⁴and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

⁵The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them ForeverOne your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of ForeverOne; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

⁶All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; ⁷and they shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

⁸Forgive, ForeverOne, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them.

⁹So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of ForeverOne.

Amos Chapter 6

¹²Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness; ¹³you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?' ¹⁴For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says ForeverOne, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."

Amos Chapter 7

Lamentations Chapter 2

²⁰Look, ForeverOne, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²¹The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

²²You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of ForeverOne's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.

Lamentations Chapter 3

¹I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

²He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

³Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

⁴My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

⁵He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

⁶He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

⁷He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

⁸Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

⁹He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

¹⁰He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

¹¹He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

¹²He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

¹³He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

¹⁴I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

¹⁶He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

¹⁷You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

¹⁸I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from ForeverOne.

¹⁹Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

²⁰My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

²¹This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

²²[It is of] ForeverOne's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.

²³They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

²⁴ForeverOne is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

²⁵ForeverOne is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

²⁶It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of ForeverOne.

²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

²⁸Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

³⁰Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

1 John Chapter 5

¹Whoever believes that Jesus is the AnointedOne has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

³For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

⁴For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

⁵Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus AnointedOne; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

⁷[*For there are three who testify:] ⁸[*the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.] ⁹If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

¹⁰He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

¹¹The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹²He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

¹³These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

¹⁴This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

¹⁵And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

¹⁶If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.

¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

¹⁸We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

²⁰We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus AnointedOne. This is the true God and eternal life.

²¹Little children, keep yourselves from idols.