The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 24

⁷If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he treats him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief must die. In this way you'll remove the evil from among you.

⁸Be careful with the plague of leprosy. Diligently keep and do all that the Levitical priests teach you. You must observe to do just as I commanded them. ⁹Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, on the journey as you came from Egypt.

¹⁰When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, don't go into his house to get his pledge. ¹¹Stand outside, and the man you are lending to will bring the pledge out to you. ¹²If he is a poor man, don't sleep with his pledge. ¹³You must surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It is righteousness before Yahweh your God.

¹⁴Don't oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. ¹⁵Pay him his wages [on the same] day before the sun goes down, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, otherwise he might cry against you to Yahweh, and [it would be] sin [for you].

¹⁶Fathers must not be put to death [for their] children, nor children put to death [for their] fathers. Every man is to be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷Don't deprive a foreigner or fatherless of justice, or take a widow's clothing in pledge; ¹⁸but remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed [you from] there. Therefore I command you to do this.

¹⁹When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, don't go back to get it. [Leave it for] the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰When you beat your olive tree, don't go over the boughs again. It's for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²¹When you harvest your vineyard, don't glean it afterwards yourselves. It's for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ²²Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. [That's why] I command you to do this thing.

Micah Chapter 2

Micah Chapter 3

¹I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? ²You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; ³who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. ⁴Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."

⁵Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: ⁶"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them. ⁷The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God." ⁸But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin. ⁹Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. ¹⁰They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us." ¹²Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Micah Chapter 4

Daniel Chapter 2

¹⁴Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon; ¹⁵he answered Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. ¹⁶Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

¹⁷Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: ¹⁸that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. ¹⁹Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. ²⁰Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his. ²¹He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding; ²²he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. ²³I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter.

²⁴Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.

²⁵Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.

²⁶The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?

²⁷Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king; ²⁸but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

²⁹as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.

Revelation Chapter 2

¹⁸"To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

¹⁹"I know your actions, your selfless-love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last actions are more than the first. ²⁰But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. ²²Behold, I will throw her and those who commit adultery with her into a bed of great oppression, unless they repent of her actions. ²³I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your actions. ²⁴But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'The deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you. ²⁵Nevertheless, hold what you have firmly until I come. ²⁶He who overcomes, and he who keeps my actions to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. ²⁷He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: ²⁸and I will give him the morning star. ²⁹He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

Revelation Chapter 3

¹"And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: "He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your actions, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. ²Wake up and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no actions of yours perfected before my God. ³So remember how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. So if you won't watch, I will come like a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you. ⁴Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn't defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. ⁵He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. ⁶He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.