The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for July 20:

First, Leviticus Chapter 18 verses 17 to 30. Follow that by reading from Isaiah Chapter 41 verse 10 to Chapter 42 verse 9. The third part is Psalm 19; and lastly Acts Chapter 18 verses 7 to 26

You can read the passages below. If you're looking to read for a different day or want to use your own Bible, then here's the entire year's plan as a list. Enjoy!

Section 1

Leviticus 18:17-30

14 verses

Leviticus Chapter 18

¹⁷"'Don't uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. Don't take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness.

¹⁸"'Don't have a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

¹⁹"'Don't approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

²⁰"'Don't lie sexually with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

²¹"'Don't give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. Don't profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

²²"'Don't lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

²³"'Don't lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

²⁴"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. ²⁵The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. ²⁶You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you ²⁷for the men of the land that were before you did all these abominations, and the land became defiled, ²⁸that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

²⁹"'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. ³⁰Therefore keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.'"

Section 2

Isaiah 41:10-42:9

29 verses

Isaiah Chapter 41

¹⁰Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. ¹¹Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish. ¹²You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing. ¹³For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.' ¹⁴Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. ¹⁶You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁷The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. ¹⁸I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. ¹⁹I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert; ²⁰that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. ²¹Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob. ²²"Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. ²³Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together. ²⁴Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination. ²⁵"I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. ²⁶Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And before, that we may say, 'He is right?' Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words. ²⁷I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem. ²⁸When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word. ²⁹Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their cast-metal images are wind and confusion.

Isaiah Chapter 42

¹"Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights - I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. ²He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. ³He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice. ⁴He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law." ⁵God Yahweh, he who created-from-nothing the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and what comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says: ⁶"I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations; ⁷to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. ⁸"I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images. ⁹Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."

Section 3

Psalm 19

15 verses

Psalm 19

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

¹The heavens declare the glory of God.
The expanse shows his handiwork.
²Day after day they pour out speech,
and night after night they display knowledge.
³There is no speech nor language
where their voice is not heard.
⁴Their voice has gone out through all the earth,
their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
⁵which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room,
like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
⁶His going out is from the end of the heavens,
his circuit to its ends.
There is nothing hidden from its heat. ⁷Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul.
Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
⁸Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart.
Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
⁹The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever.
Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
¹⁰They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold,
sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
¹¹Moreover your servant is warned by them.
In keeping them there is great reward.
¹²Who can discern his errors?
Forgive me from hidden errors. ¹³Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
Don't let them rule me.
Then I will be upright.
I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
¹⁴Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Section 4

Acts 18:7-26

20 verses

Acts Chapter 18

⁷He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. ⁸Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized. ⁹The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent; ¹⁰for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

¹¹He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. ¹²But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, ¹³saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

¹⁴But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you; ¹⁵but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters." ¹⁶So he drove them from the judgment seat.

¹⁷Then all [*the Greeks] seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.

¹⁸Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow. ¹⁹He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. ²⁰When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined; ²¹but taking his leave of them, he said, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills." Then he set sail from Ephesus.

²²When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch. ²³Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples. ²⁴Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. ²⁵This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. ²⁶He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

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In general square brackets:[] are used to indicate words not found in the original text.
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