M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

16 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent, which David had pitched for it: and they offered holocausts, and peace offerings before God.

² And when David had made an end of offering holocausts, and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.

³ And he divided to all and every one, both men and women, a loaf of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and flour fried with oil.

⁴ And he appointed Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to remember his works, and to glorify, and praise the Lord God of Israel.

⁵ Asaph the chief, and next after him Zacharias: moreover Jahiel, and Semiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mathathias, and Eliab, and Banaias, and Obededom: and Jehiel over the instruments of psaltery, and harps: and Asaph sounded with cymbals:

⁶ But Banaias, and Jaziel the priests, to sound the trumpet continually before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

⁷ In that day David made Asaph the chief to give praise to the Lord with his brethren.

⁸ Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make known his doings among the nations.

⁹ Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: and relate all his wondrous works.

¹⁰ Praise ye his holy name: let the heart I of them rejoice, that seek the Lord.

¹¹ Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore.

¹² Remember his wonderful works, which he hath done: his signs, and the judgments of his mouth.

¹³ O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

¹⁴ He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

¹⁵ Remember for ever his covenant: the word, which he commanded to a thousand generations.

¹⁶ The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac.

¹⁷ And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

¹⁸ Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritance.

¹⁹ When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in it.

²⁰ And they passed from nation to nation: and from a kingdom to another people.

²¹ He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake.

²² Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

²³ Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth: shew forth from day to day his salvation.

²⁴ Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.

²⁵ For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is to be feared above all gods.

²⁶ For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

²⁷ Praise and magnificence are before him: strength and joy in his place.

²⁸ Bring ye to the Lord, O ye families of the nations: bring ye to the Lord glory and empire.

²⁹ Give to the Lord glory to his name, bring up sacrifice, and come ye in his sight: and adore the Lord in holy becomingness.

³⁰ Let all the earth be moved at his presence: for he hath founded the world immoveable.

³¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be glad: and let them say among the nations: The Lord hath reigned.

³² Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all things that are in them.

³³ Then shall the trees of the wood give praise before the Lord: because he is come to judge the earth.

³⁴ Give ye glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

³⁵ And say ye: Save us, O God our saviour: and gather us together, and deliver us from the nations, that we may give glory to thy holy name, and may rejoice in singing thy praises.

³⁶ Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity: and let all the people say Amen, and a hymn to God.

³⁷ So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, Asaph and his brethren to minister in the presence of the ark continually day by day, and in their courses.

³⁸ And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-eight: and Obededom the son of Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to be porters.

³⁹ And Sadoc the priest, and his brethren priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place, which was in Gabaon.

⁴⁰ That they should offer holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of holocausts continually, morning and evening, according to all that is written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel.

⁴¹ And after him Heman, and Idithun, and the rest that were chosen, every one by his name to give praise to the Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever.

⁴² And Heman and Idithun sounded the trumpet, and played on the cymbals, and all kinds of musical instruments to sing praises to God: and the sons of Idithun he made porters.

⁴³ And all the people returned to their houses: and David to bless also his own house.

3 Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the greater judgment.

² For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

³ For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

⁴ Behold also ships, whereas they are great, and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the force of the governor willeth.

⁵ Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

⁷ For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man:

⁸ But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

⁹ By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

¹¹ Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?

¹² Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

¹³ Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

¹⁵ For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.

¹⁶ For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.

¹⁷ But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

¹⁸ And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

¹ The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.

² Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.

³ The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?

⁴ Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

⁵ If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster?

⁶ How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?

⁷ They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no wisdom in him.

⁸ Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

⁹ And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

¹⁰ For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.

¹¹ In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

¹² But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress.

¹³ Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.

¹⁴ Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of tribulation.

¹⁵ For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations: as thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own head.

¹⁶ For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all nations shall drink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be as though they were not.

¹⁷ And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.

¹⁸ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in them, and shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the house of Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it.

¹⁹ And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall possess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Galaad.

²⁰ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south.

²¹ And saviours shall come up into mount Sion to judge the mount of Esau: and the kingdom shall be for the Lord.

5 And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth,

² And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

³ And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

⁴ Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

⁵ And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have labored all the night, and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.

⁶ And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes, and their net broke.

⁷ And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were almost sinking.

⁸ Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

⁹ For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken.

¹⁰ And so were also James and John the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

¹¹ And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they followed him.

¹² And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy, who seeing Jesus, and falling on his face, besought him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

¹³ And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

¹⁴ And he charged him that he should tell no man, but, Go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

¹⁵ But the fame of him went abroad the more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

¹⁶ And he retired into the desert, and prayed.

¹⁷ And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was to heal them.

¹⁸ And behold, men brought in a bed a man, who had the palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

¹⁹ And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof, and let him down through the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus.

²⁰ Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

²¹ And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

²² And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering, he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?

²³ Which is easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk?

²⁴ But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say to thee, Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house.

²⁵ And immediately rising up before them, he took up the bed on which he lay; and he went away to his own house, glorifying God.

²⁶ And all were astonished; and they glorified God. And they were filled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to day.

²⁷ And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said to him: Follow me.

²⁸ And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.

²⁹ And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others, that were at table with them.

³⁰ But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

³¹ And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the physician: but they that are sick.

³² I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.

³³ And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?

³⁴ To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast, whilst the bridegroom is with them?

³⁵ But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then shall they fast in those days.

³⁶ And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment; otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.

³⁷ And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles, and it will be spilled, and the bottles will be lost.

³⁸ But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

³⁹ And no man drinking old, hath presently a mind to new: for he saith, The old is better.