The Bible Reading Plan

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Deuteronomy Chapter 20

¹⁵Do this to all the cities which are very far away from you, which are not the cities of these nations here. ¹⁶But the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you for an inheritance, leave nothing that breathes alive; ¹⁷but utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, [just as] Yahweh your God has commanded you; ¹⁸so they don't teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; [making you] sin [against] Yahweh your God. ¹⁹When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it to take it, don't destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat from them. Don't cut them down. Is the tree of the field human, [that it should] be besieged? ²⁰Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you may destroy and cut them down. Build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

Deuteronomy Chapter 21

¹If someone is found dead lying in a field in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you to possess, and it isn't known who struck him, ²then your elders and your judges are to come out, and measure [the distance] to the cities which are around the one who is dead. ³The city which is nearest to the dead man, [that is] the elders of that city, are to take a heifer from the herd, which hasn't been worked and hasn't pulled in a [team with a] yoke. ⁴The elders of that city should bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which isn't plowed or sown, and break the heifer's neck there in the valley. ⁵The priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh. Every controversy and every stroke [will be decided] by their word. ⁶All the elders of the city that is nearest to the dead man must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ⁷They are to answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. ⁸Yahweh forgive your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood among your people Israel." The blood [guilt] will be forgiven them. ⁹When you do what is right in Yahweh's eyes you'll purge the innocent blood from among you.

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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 Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."

Amos Chapter 7

¹Thus LordOfMine Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts at the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. ²When they finished eating the plants of the land, then I said, "LordOfMine Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

³Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.

⁴Thus LordOfMine Yahweh showed me and behold, LordOfMine Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. ⁵Then I said, "LordOfMine Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

⁶Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says LordOfMine Yahweh.

⁷Thus he showed me and behold, LordOfMine stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then LordOfMine said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. ⁹The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

¹⁰Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. ¹¹For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

¹²Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: ¹³but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"

¹⁴Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs; ¹⁵and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' ¹⁶Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.' ¹⁷Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

Amos Chapter 8

¹Thus LordOfMine Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

²He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. ³The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says LordOfMine Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

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Lamentations Chapter 2

²⁰Look, Yahweh, and see! Who have you treated like this?
Should the women eat their offspring,
the children they've tenderly-cared for?
Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of LordOfMine? ²¹The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
My virgins and my young men have 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 no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger.
My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

Lamentations Chapter 3

¹I am the man who 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 he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long. ⁴He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
⁵He has built against me,
and surrounded me with poison and hardship.
⁶He has made me live in dark places,
as those who have been long dead. ⁷He has walled me about, so that I can't go out.
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 hiding.
¹¹He has turned away my path,
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 have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.
¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood. ¹⁶He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.
¹⁷You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
¹⁸I said, "My strength has perished,
[along with] my hope from Yahweh." ¹⁹Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the poison.
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] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail. ²³They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ²⁴Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in him. ²⁵Yahweh 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 Yahweh. 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.

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1 John Chapter 5

¹Whoever believes that Jesus is AnointedOne has been born of God. Whoever selflessly-loves the Father also selflessly-loves the child who is born of him. ²By this we know that we selflessly-love the children of God, when we selflessly-love God and keep his commandments. ³For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not heavy. 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.

¹³I've written these things to you-all who trust in the name of the Son of God, that you-all may know that you-all have eternal life, [*and that you-all 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 falling-short with a shortcoming not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those whose falling-short won't lead to death. There is a shortcoming leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning that. ¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

¹⁸We know that whoever is born of God doesn't fall-short, 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.