The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 16

¹Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you from Egypt by night. ²Sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahweh chooses to cause his name to reside. ³Eat no leavened bread with it. Eat unleavened bread with it for seven days, the bread of affliction (for you came here from the land of Egypt in haste). So that you'll remember all the days of your life the day when you came from the land of Egypt. ⁴Let no yeast be seen with you in all your borders for seven days. Let none of the flesh, which you sacrifice on the first day in the evening, remain all night until the morning. ⁵You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God is giving you; ⁶but in the place where Yahweh your God chooses to cause his name to reside, sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the [same] season that you came from Egypt. ⁷Roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. Return to your tents in the morning. ⁸For six days eat unleavened bread. The seventh day is to be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. Do no work [on it].

⁹Count seven weeks for yourselves. Begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. ¹⁰Keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you are to give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you. ¹¹Rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses to cause his name to reside. ¹²Remember that you were a slave in Egypt. Observe and do these statutes.

¹³You are to keep the feast of temporary-shelters for seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress. ¹⁴Rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates. ¹⁵Keep a feast to Yahweh your God for seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you are to be altogether joyful.

Joel Chapter 1

¹The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. ²Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? ³Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. ⁴What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. ⁵Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. ⁶For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness. ⁷He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. ⁸Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth! ⁹The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn. ¹⁰The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. ¹¹Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished. ¹²The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men. ¹³Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house. ¹⁴Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh. ¹⁵Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. ¹⁶Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. ¹⁸How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. ¹⁹Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Song of Songs Chapter 2

Song of Songs Chapter 3

¹By night on my bed,
I sought him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but I didn't find him.
²I will get up now, and go about the city;
in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but I didn't find him.
³The watchmen who go about the city found me;
"Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
⁴I had scarcely passed from them,
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go,
until I had brought him into my mother's house,
into the room of her who conceived me. ⁵I solemnly-order you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
that you not stir up nor awaken love,
until it so desires. ⁶Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all spices of the merchant?
⁷Behold, it is Solomon's carriage!
Sixty mighty men are around it,
of the mighty men of Israel.
⁸They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.
Every man has his sword on his thigh,
because of fear in the night. ⁹King Solomon made himself a carriage
of the wood of Lebanon.
¹⁰He made its pillars of silver,
its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,
the middle of it being paved with love,
from the daughters of Jerusalem.
¹¹Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,
in the day of his weddings,
in the day of the gladness of his heart.

2 Peter Chapter 1

¹Simon Peter, a servant and ambassador of Jesus AnointedOne, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus AnointedOne: ²Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, ³seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue, ⁴by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. ⁵Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; ⁶and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness; ⁷and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, selfless-love. ⁸For these [qualities] are yours and increasing [in you]. They make you not idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne. ⁹For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. ¹⁰So, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. ¹¹For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus AnointedOne.

¹²So I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. ¹³I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, ¹⁴knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus AnointedOne made clear to me. ¹⁵Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

¹⁶For we didn't follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus AnointedOne, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my dear Son, in whom I am well pleased." ¹⁸We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

¹⁹We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts: ²⁰knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. ²¹For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.