M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

23 `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

² `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;

³ and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

⁴ `When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;

⁵ when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving [it] to it -- thou dost certainly leave [it] with him.

⁶ `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

⁷ from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

⁸ `And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-[eyed], and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁹ `And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ `And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;

¹¹ and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard.

¹² `Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

¹³ and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.

¹⁴ `Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

¹⁵ the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed [in] the month of Abib; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt, and ye do not appear [in] My presence empty;

¹⁶ and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

¹⁷ `Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁸ `Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

¹⁹ the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

²⁰ `Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared;

²¹ be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice, rebel not against him, for he beareth not with your transgression, for My name [is] in his heart;

²² for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with thine enemies, and have distressed those distressing thee.

²³ `For My messenger goeth before thee, and hath brought thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I have cut them off.

²⁴ `Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.

²⁵ `And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;

²⁶ there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:

²⁷ My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto thee.

²⁸ `And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee;

²⁹ I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;

³⁰ little [by] little I cast them out from before thee, till thou art fruitful, and hast inherited the land.

³¹ `And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;

³² thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;

³³ they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me when thou servest their gods, when it becometh a snare to thee.'

2 And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

² and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;

³ and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, `Wine they have not;'

⁴ Jesus saith to her, `What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'

⁵ His mother saith to the ministrants, `Whatever he may say to you -- do.'

⁶ And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.

⁷ Jesus saith to them, `Fill the water-jugs with water;' and they filled them -- unto the brim;

⁸ and he saith to them, `Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;' and they bare.

⁹ And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom,

¹⁰ and saith to him, `Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.'

¹¹ This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;

¹² after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.

¹³ And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

¹⁴ and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,

¹⁵ and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,

¹⁶ and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'

¹⁷ And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

¹⁸ the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

²⁰ The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

²¹ but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

²² when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

²³ And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;

²⁴ and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all [men],

²⁵ and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

41 Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue?

² Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?

³ Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?

⁴ Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

⁵ Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?

⁶ (Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)

⁷ Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?

⁸ Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle -- do not add!

⁹ Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?

¹⁰ None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who [is] he before Me stationeth himself?

¹¹ Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] mine.

¹² I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement.

¹³ Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter?

¹⁴ The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.

¹⁵ A pride -- strong ones of shields, Shut up -- a close seal.

¹⁶ One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them.

¹⁷ One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are not separated.

¹⁸ His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.

¹⁹ Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape.

²⁰ Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds.

²¹ His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.

²² In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief exult.

²³ The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him -- it is not moved.

²⁴ His heart [is] firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece.

²⁵ From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.

²⁶ The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear -- dart -- and lance.

²⁷ He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood.

²⁸ The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.

²⁹ As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

³⁰ Under him [are] sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

³¹ He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment.

³² After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary.

³³ There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.

³⁴ Every high thing he doth see, He [is] king over all sons of pride.

11 O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

² for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

³ and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;

⁴ for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing [it],

⁵ for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

⁶ and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

⁷ The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

⁸ other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;

⁹ and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

¹¹ wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

¹² and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

¹³ for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

¹⁴ and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

¹⁵ no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.

¹⁶ Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

¹⁷ That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

¹⁸ since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

¹⁹ for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise,

²⁰ for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

²¹ in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say [it] -- I also am bold.

²² Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

²³ ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

²⁴ from Jews five times forty [stripes] save one I did receive;

²⁵ thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;

²⁶ journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

²⁷ in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

²⁸ apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

²⁹ Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

³⁰ if to boast it behoveth [me], of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

³¹ the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --

³² In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

³³ and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.