M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

2 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever:

² On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?

³ Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face: that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.

⁴ And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and wept.

⁵ And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.

⁶ And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went every one to his own possession to hold it:

⁷ And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.

⁸ And Josue the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old,

⁹ And they buried him in the borders of his possession in Thamnathsare in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas.

¹⁰ And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.

¹¹ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim.

¹² And they left the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger.

¹³ Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth.

¹⁴ And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:

¹⁵ But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

¹⁶ And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them,

¹⁷ Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary.

¹⁸ And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.

¹⁹ But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.

²⁰ And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice:

²¹ I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left, when he died:

²² That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

²³ The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would not quickly destroy them, neither did he deliver them into the hands of Josue.

6 And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

² Then the twelve calling together the multitude of the disciples, said: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

³ Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

⁵ And the saying was liked by all the multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.

⁶ These they set before the apostles; and they praying, imposed hands upon them.

⁷ And the word of the Lord increased; and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly: a great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

⁸ And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and signs among the people.

⁹ Now there arose some of that which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them that were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

¹⁰ And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that spoke.

¹¹ Then they suborned men to say, they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the ancients, and the scribes; and running together, they took him, and brought him to the council.

¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

¹⁴ For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us.

¹⁵ And all that sat in the council, looking on him, saw his face as if it had been the face of an angel.

15 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

² And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to death: and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and such as are for famine, to famine: and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

³ And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

⁴ And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

⁵ For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace?

⁶ Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I am weary of entreating thee.

⁷ And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from their ways.

⁸ Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.

⁹ She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

¹¹ The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall be well with thy remnant, assuredly I shall help thee in the time of affliction, and in the time of tribulation against the enemy.

¹² Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?

¹³ Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

¹⁴ And I will bring thy enemies out of a land, which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in my rage, it shall burn upon you.

¹⁵ O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have sufferred reproach.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.

¹⁷ I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

¹⁸ Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

¹⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted, I will convert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face; and if thou wilt separate the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall be turned to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them.

²⁰ And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

²¹ And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty.

1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

² As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare the way before thee.

³ A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

⁴ John was in the desert baptizing, and preaching the baptism of penance, unto remission of sins.

⁵ And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were baptized by him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁶ And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey.

⁷ And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

⁸ I have baptized you with water; but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

⁹ And it came to pass, in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

¹⁰ And forthwith coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit as a dove descending, and remaining on him.

¹¹ And there came a voice from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

¹² And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert.

¹³ And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan; and he was with beasts, and the angels ministered to him.

¹⁴ And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

¹⁵ And saying: The time is accomplished, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel.

¹⁶ And passing by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, casting nets into the sea (for they were fishermen).

¹⁷ And Jesus said to them: Come after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

¹⁸ And immediately leaving their nets, they followed him.

¹⁹ And going on from thence a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were mending their nets in the ship:

²⁰ And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with his hired men, they followed him.

²¹ And they entered into Capharnaum, and forthwith upon the sabbath days going into the synagogue, he taught them.

²² And they were astonished at his doctrine. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes.

²³ And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

²⁴ Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.

²⁵ And Jesus threatened him, saying: Speak no more, and go out of the man.

²⁶ And the unclean spirit tearing him, and crying out with a loud voice, went out of him.

²⁷ And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying: What thing is this? what is this new doctrine? for with power he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.

²⁸ And the fame of him was spread forthwith into all the country of Galilee.

²⁹ And immediately going out of the synagogue they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

³⁰ And Simon's wife's mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith they tell him of her.

³¹ And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking her by the hand; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

³² And when it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all that were ill and that were possessed with devils.

³³ And all the city was gathered together at the door.

³⁴ And he healed many that were troubled with divers diseases; and he cast out many devils, and he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him.

³⁵ And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.

³⁶ And Simon, and they that were with him, followed after him.

³⁷ And when they had found him, they said to him: All seek for thee.

³⁸ And he saith to them: Let us go into the neighbouring towns and cities, that I may preach there also; for to this purpose am I come.

³⁹ And he was preaching in their synagogues, and in all Galilee, and casting out devils.

⁴⁰ And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down said to him: If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

⁴¹ And Jesus having compassion on him, stretched forth his hand; and touching him, saith to him: I will. Be thou made clean.

⁴² And when he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.

⁴³ And he strictly charged him, and forthwith sent him away.

⁴⁴ And he saith to him: See thou tell no one; but go, shew thyself to the high priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

⁴⁵ But he being gone out, began to publish and to blaze abroad the word: so that he could not openly go into the city, but was without in desert places: and they flocked to him from all sides.