M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
50 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face and wept upon him and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 So, forty days were fulfilled (for so long did the days of those who were embalmed last); and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to the House of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have now found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, and say,
5 ‘My father made me swear saying, “Lo, I die. Bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.”’ Now, therefore, please let me go and bury my father; and I will come back.”
6 Then Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he has made you swear to do.”
7 So, Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
8 Likewise, all the House of Joseph went, and his brothers, and his father’s House. Only their children and their sheep and their cattle did they leave in the land of Goshen.
9 And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. And they were an exceedingly great company.
10 And they came to Goren Atad (which is beyond Jordan); and there they made a great and exceedingly severe lamentation. And he mourned for his father for seven days.
11 And when the Canaanites (the inhabitants of the land) saw the mourning in Goren Atad, they said, “This is a great mourning to the Egyptians.” Therefore, the name thereof was called “Abel Mizraim,” which is beyond Jordan.
12 So, his sons did to him as he had commanded them.
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite (beside Mamre) as a burial place.
14 Then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 And when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
16 Therefore, they sent to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before his death, saying,
17 ‘Thus shall you say to Joseph, “Please forgive, now, the trespass of your brothers and their sin. For they rewarded you evil.”’ And now, please forgive the trespass of the servants of your father’s God.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18 Also, his brothers came to him and fell down before his face, and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19 To whom Joseph said, “Do not fear. For, am not I under God?
20 “When you thought evil against me, God disposed it to good, so that He might bring to pass as it is this day and save many people alive.
21 “Now, therefore, do not fear. I will nourish you and your children.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
22 So, Joseph dwelt in Egypt (he and his father’s House). And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children, even to the third generation. Also, the sons of Machir (the son of Manasseh) were brought upon Joseph’s knees.
24 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am ready to die; and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land, to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
25 And Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you; and you shall carry my bones from there.”
26 So, Joseph died when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
3 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar - Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene
2 (when Annas and Caiaphas were the High Priests) - the Word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
3 And he came into all the regions around Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,
4 as it is written in the Book of the sayings of Isaiah the Prophet, which says, “The voice of him who cries in the wilderness is, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord! Make His paths straight!
5 ‘Every valley shall be filled. And every mountain and hill shall be brought low. And crooked things shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.
6 ‘And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
7 Then he said to the people who had come out to be baptized by him, “O generations of vipers! Who has forewarned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 “Therefore, bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our Father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children of Abraham from these stones!
9 “Now also is the axe laid to the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree which does not bring forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire!”
10 Then the people asked him, saying, “What shall we do then?”
11 And he answered, and said to them, “The one having two coats, let him give to the one who has none. And the one who has food, let him do likewise.”
12 Then there came tax collectors to be baptized also, and said to him, “Master, what shall we do?”
13 And he said to them, “Require no more than that which is appointed to you.”
14 The soldiers likewise asked him, saying, “And what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Extort no one, nor accuse anyone falsely. And be content with your wages.”
15 As the people waited expectantly, and everyone wondered in their hearts whether John was the Christ,
16 John answered, and said to them all, “Indeed, I baptize you with water! But One stronger than me comes, Whose sandals I am not worthy to unloose! He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire!
17 “His fan is in His hand, and He will make clean his floor, and will gather the wheat into His barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never shall be quenched!”
18 Then, exhorting with many other things, he preached to the people.
19 But when Herod the Tetrarch was rebuked by him (for Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done),
20 he added this above all: that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now it happened that as all the people were baptized, and as Jesus was baptized and prayed, the heaven was opened.
22 And the Holy Ghost came down in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him. And there was a voice from Heaven, saying, “You are My beloved Son. In You I am well pleased.”
23 And Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age - being, as men supposed, the Son of Joseph, who was the son of Heli,
24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph,
25 the son of Mattathiah, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathiah, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah,
27 the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,
29 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,
31 The son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattathah, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,
38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
16 But Job answered and said,
2 “I have oftentimes heard such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
3 “Shall there be no end of your words of wind? What makes you so bold to answer?
4 “I could also speak as you do if your soul were in my soul’s place. I could keep you company in speaking and could shake my head at you.
5 “But I would strengthen you with my mouth. And the motion of my lips would bring relief.
6 “Though I speak, my sorrow cannot be relieved. Though I cease, what release have I?
7 “But now, He makes me weary: You have made all my congregation desolate
8 “and have made me full of wrinkles, which is a witness of it. And my leanness rises up in me, testifying in my face.
9 “His wrath has torn and He hates me, gnashing on me with His Teeth. My enemy has sharpened his eyes against me.
10 “They have opened their mouths upon me and struck me on the cheek in reproach. They gathered themselves together against me.
11 “God has delivered me to the unjust and has made me turn out of the way, by the hands of the wicked.
12 “I was wealthy, but he has brought me to nothing. He has taken me by the neck and beaten me and set me as a mark for Himself.
13 “His archers surround me. He pierces my core and does not spare and pours my gall upon the ground.
14 “He has broken me with one breaking upon another and runs upon me like a giant.
15 “I have sown a sackcloth upon my skin and have defiled my horn in the dust.
16 “My face is withered with weeping and the shadow of death is upon my eyes,
17 “though no wickedness is in my hands and my prayer is pure.
18 “O Earth, do not cover my blood. And let my crying find no place.
19 “For lo, now my witness is in the sky, and my record on high.
20 “My friends speak eloquently against me. My eye pours out to God.
21 “Oh that a man might plead with God, as a man with his neighbor!
22 “For few years come before I shall go and not return.
17 “My spirit is broken. My days are cut off and the grave is ready for me.
2 “There are none but mockers with me, and my eye must dwell on their disobedience.
3 “Lay down, now, pledge for me with Yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 “For You have hidden their heart from understanding. Therefore, You shall not exalt.
5 “For the eyes of his children shall fail who speaks flattery to friends.
6 “He has also made me a byword of the people, and I am as one spit on by them.
7 “My eye, therefore, is dim for grief, and all my strength like a shadow.
8 “The righteous shall be astonished at this. And the innocent shall be moved against the hypocrite.
9 “But the righteous will hold to his way. And he whose hands are pure shall increase strength.
10 “All you, therefore, return and come now. And I shall not find one wise among you.
11 “My days are past. My enterprises are broken. The thoughts of my heart
12 “have exchanged the night for the day and the light that approached for darkness.
13 “Though I hope, the grave shall be my house. I shall make my bed in the dark.
14 “I shall say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
15 “Where now, then, is my hope? Or who shall consider the thing for which I hoped?
16 “It shall go down into the bottom of the pit. Surely they shall lie together in the dust.”
4 Let a man so think of us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 And as for the rest, it is required of the stewards that everyone be found faithful.
3 As for me, however, it is my least concern to be examined by you, or by mankind. I do not even examine myself.
4 For though I am aware of nothing against myself, I am not thereby justified. But the One who judges me is the Lord.
5 Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, Who will enlighten things that are hidden in darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.
6 Now these things, brothers, I have figuratively applied to my own self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you might learn by us; that no one presumes above that which is written, that no one is puffed up over another.
7 For who separates you? And what do you have, that you have not received? If you have received it, why do you boast as though you had not received it?
8 Now you are full. Now you are made rich. You reign as kings without us. And I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has set us forth, the last Apostles, as men appointed to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, and to the angels, and to man.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake; and you, wise in Christ. We are weak, and you strong. You honorable, and we despised.
11 Unto this hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
12 and labor, working with our own hands. We are reviled, and we bless. We are persecuted. We suffer it.
13 We are slandered, and we pray. We are made as the filth of the world, the scum of all things, unto this time.
14 I do not write these things to shame you. But as my beloved children, I admonish you.
15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you, through the Gospel.
16 Therefore, I encourage you, be followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord; who shall put you in remembrance of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Now, some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the words of those who are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What is your will? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and in the spirit of meekness?
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