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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
Duration: 861 days
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
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Psalm 18

18 I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death lay before me.

In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, even unto His ears.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was wroth.

There went up smoke out of His nostrils, and a devouring fire out of His mouth; coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also and came down; and darkness was under His feet.

10 And He rode upon a cherub and flew; yea, He flew upon the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness His secret place; His pavilion round about Him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness that was before Him, His thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest uttered His voice with hail stones and coals of fire.

14 Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and discomfited them.

15 Then the channels of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at Thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.

16 He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me, for they were too strong for me.

18 They came against me in the day of my calamity; but the Lord was my stay.

19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.

20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all His judgments were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me.

23 I was also upright before Him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.

25 With the merciful Thou wilt show Thyself merciful; with an upright man Thou wilt show Thyself upright;

26 with the pure Thou wilt show Thyself pure; and with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward.

27 For Thou wilt save the afflicted people, but wilt bring down haughty looks.

28 For Thou wilt light my candle; the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

29 For by Thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

30 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proved; He is a buckler to all those that trust in Him.

31 For who is God, except the Lord? Or who is a rock, except our God?

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that the bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of Thy salvation; Thy right hand hath held me up, and Thy gentleness hath made me great.

36 Thou hast enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.

37 I have pursued mine enemies and overtaken them; neither did I turn back until they were consumed.

38 I have wounded them, that they were not able to rise; they have fallen under my feet.

39 For Thou hast girded me with strength for the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

41 They cried, but there was none to save them, even unto the Lord, but He answered them not.

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and Thou hast made me the head of the heathen; a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me; the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

46 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my Rock! And let the God of my salvation be exalted!

47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me;

48 He delivereth me from mine enemies. Yea, Thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me; Thou hast delivered me from violent men.

49 Therefore will I give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto Thy name.

50 Great deliverance giveth He to His king and showeth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed for evermore.

Isaiah 12

12 And in that day thou shalt say: “O Lord, I will praise Thee; though Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away, and Thou comforted me.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.”

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation;

and in that day shall ye say: “Praise the Lord! Call upon His name! Declare His doings among the people; make mention that His name is exalted.

Sing unto the Lord, for He hath done excellent things; this is known in all the earth.

Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion! For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.”

Revelation 1:1-8

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And He sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant John,

who bore record of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein; for the time is at hand.

John, To the seven churches in Asia: Grace be unto you and peace from Him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before His throne;

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first-begotten of the dead, and the prince over the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also who pierced Him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so. Amen.

I Am Alpha And Omega, The Beginning And The Ending,” saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

John 7:37-52

37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.

38 He that believeth in Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

39 (But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believe in Him should receive; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, “In truth this is the Prophet.”

41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Shall Christ come out of Galilee?

42 Hath not the Scripture said that Christ cometh out of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?”

43 So there was a division among the people because of Him.

44 And some of them would have taken Him, but no man laid hands on Him.

45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said unto them, “Why have ye not brought him?”

46 The officers answered, “Never did man speak like this man!”

47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are ye also deceived?

48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

49 But this people, who knoweth not the law, are cursed.”

50 Nicodemus said unto them (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them),

51 “Doth our law judge any man before it hear him and know what he doeth?”

52 They answered and said unto him, “Art thou also from Galilee? Search and look, for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.”