The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 19

⁷Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

⁸If ForeverOne your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; ⁹if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love ForeverOne your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three: ¹⁰that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which ForeverOne your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

¹¹But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; ¹²then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

¹³Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

¹⁴You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that ForeverOne your God gives you to possess it.

¹⁵One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

¹⁶If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, ¹⁷then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before ForeverOne, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; ¹⁸and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; ¹⁹then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

²⁰Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

²¹Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Amos Chapter 4

¹Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!" ²The Lord ForeverOne has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

³You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says ForeverOne.

⁴"Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, ⁵offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord ForeverOne.

⁶"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says ForeverOne.

⁷"I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.

⁸So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says ForeverOne.

⁹"I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says ForeverOne.

¹⁰"I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me," says ForeverOne.

¹¹"I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says ForeverOne.

¹²"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

¹³For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: ForeverOne, the God of Armies, is his name."

Amos Chapter 5

²"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up." ³For thus says the Lord ForeverOne: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." ⁴For thus says ForeverOne to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live; ⁵but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

⁶Seek ForeverOne, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

⁷You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: ⁸seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, ForeverOne is his name, ⁹who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

¹⁰They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

¹¹Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

¹²For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins - you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

¹³Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Lamentations Chapter 1

¹⁵The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

¹⁶For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

¹⁷Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; ForeverOne has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

¹⁸ForeverOne is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

¹⁹I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

²⁰See, ForeverOne; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

²¹They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

²²Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Lamentations Chapter 2

¹How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

²The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

³He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

⁴He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

⁵The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

⁶He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: ForeverOne has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

1 John Chapter 3

¹See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

²Dear-ones, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

³Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

⁴Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

⁵You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

⁶Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him and doesn't know him.

⁷Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

⁸He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the actions of the devil.

⁹Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

¹⁰In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

¹¹For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; ¹²unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his actions were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹³Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

¹⁴We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

¹⁵Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

¹⁶By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God's love remain in him?

¹⁸My little children, let's not love in word or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

¹⁹And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him, ²⁰because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

²¹Dear-ones, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God; ²²so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

²³This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus AnointedOne, and love one another, even as he commanded.

²⁴He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.