M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God, all sufficient. Walk before me and be upright.
2 “And I will make My Covenant between Me and you; and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
3 Then Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,
4 “Behold, I make My Covenant with you; and you shall be a father of many nations.
5 “Nor shall your name be called Abram anymore; but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
6 “Also, I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and will make nations from you. Indeed, kings shall proceed from you.
7 “Moreover, I will establish My Covenant between Me and you and your seed after you (in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant), to be God to you and to your seed after you.
8 “And I will give you the land wherein you are a stranger, to you and your seed after you, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
9 Again, God said to Abraham, “You also shall keep My Covenant, you and your seed after you, in their generations.
10 “This is My Covenant which you shall keep between Me and you and your seed after you: Let every male child among you be circumcised.
11 “That is, you shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh; and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between Me and you.
12 “And every male child among you of eight days old shall be circumcised in your generations, as well he who is born in your house (such as he who was bought with money from any stranger; who is not of your seed).
13 “He who is born in your house, and he who was bought with your money, must be circumcised. So, My Covenant shall be in your flesh, for an everlasting Covenant.
14 “But the uncircumcised child (in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised), even that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken My Covenant.”
15 Afterward, God said to Abraham, “Sarai, your wife, you shall not call ‘Sarai’; but ‘Sarah’ shall be her name.
16 “And I will bless her and will also give you a son by her. Indeed, I will bless her; and she shall be the mother of nations. Kings of people shall come from her.”
17 Then, Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?”
18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live in Your sight.”
19 Then God said, “Sarah, your wife, shall indeed bear you a son. And you shall call his name ‘Isaac’; and I will establish My Covenant with him and with his seed after him, for an everlasting Covenant.
20 “And concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Lo, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes; and I will make a great nation from him.
21 “But I will establish My Covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you next year at this season.”
22 And he ceased talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.
23 Then, Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all who were born in his house, and all that was bought with his money (that is, every male child among the men of Abraham’s house) and he circumcised the foreskin of their flesh on that same day, as God had commanded him.
24 And Abraham himself was ninety-nine years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.
25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.
26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised the same day.
27 And all the men of his house (born in his house and bought from a stranger, with money) were circumcised with him.
16 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tempted Him, desiring Him to show them a sign from Heaven.
2 But He answered, and said to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘Fair weather, for the sky is red.’
3 And in the morning, ‘Storm today. For the sky is red and overcast.’ O, hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky. And can you not discern the signs of the times?
4 “The wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But there shall be no sign given it, except that sign of the Prophet Jonah.” So, He left them and departed.
5 And when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
6 Then Jesus said to them, “Watch, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have brought no bread.”
8 But Jesus, knowing it, said to them, “O, you of little faith. Why are you thinking among yourselves, ‘because you have brought no bread’?”
9 Do you still not perceive or remember the five loaves - when there were five thousand - and how many baskets did you take up;
10 “or the seven loaves - when there were four thousand - and how many baskets did you take up?
11 “How do you not understand that what I said to you was not concerning bread, but that you should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”
12 Then they understood that He had not said that they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
13 Now when Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
14 And they said, “Some say John Baptist; and some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the Prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But, whom do you say that I am?”
16 Then Simon Peter answered, and said, “You are the Christ; the Son of the living God.”
17 And Jesus answered, and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon, the son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father Who is in Heaven.
18 “And I also say to you that you are Peter. And upon this rock I will build My Church. And the gates of Hell shall not overcome it.
19 “And I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And whatever you shall bind upon Earth, shall be bound in Heaven. And whatever you shall loose on Earth, shall be loosed in Heaven.”
20 Then He charged His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus, the Christ.
21 From that time forth, Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and the chief priests, and scribes, and be slain, and be raised again the third day.
22 Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Master! This shall not happen to You!”
23 Then He turned back and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me because you do not understand the things of God, but the things of men!”
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone will follow Me, let him forsake himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
25 “For whoever would save his life, shall lose it. And whoever shall lose his life, for My sake, shall find it.
26 “For what shall it profit a man if he should win the whole world, yet he loses his own soul? Or what shall a man give for recompense of his soul?
27 “For the Son of Man shall come in the Glory of his Father, with His angels. And then He shall give to everyone according to his deeds.
28 “Truly I say to you, some of those who stand here shall not taste death before they have seen the Son of Man come in His Kingdom.”
6 And when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall, and that there were no more breaches in it (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates),
2 then Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, so that we may meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” And they thought to do me evil.
3 Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying, “I have a great work to do, and I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”
4 Still, they sent to me four times in the same way. And I answered them in the same way.
5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me as before for the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand,
6 in which was written, “It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu has said so, that you and the Jews plan to rebel, for which reason you built the wall. And you will be their king according to these words.
7 “You have also ordained the Prophets to preach of you at Jerusalem, saying, “There is a king in Judah.” And now according to these words, it shall come to the king’s ears. Come now, therefore, and let us take counsel together.”
8 Then I sent to him, saying, “Nothing is done according to these words that you speak. For you feign them from your own heart.”
9 For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands shall be weakened from the work, and it shall not be done.” Now, therefore, encourage me.
10 And I came to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. And he was shut up. And he said, “Let us come together into the House of God, in the midst of the Temple, and shut the doors of the Temple. For they will come to kill you. Yea, in the night will they come to kill you.”
11 Then I said, “Should such a man as I flee? Who is he, being as I am, who would go into the Temple to live? I will not go in.”
12 And lo, I perceived that God had not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecy against me. For Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Therefore, he was hired so that I might be afraid, and do such, and sin, so that they might have an evil report, so that they might reproach me.
14 My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat, according to these their works, and Noadiah the prophetess also, and the rest of the prophets who would have put me in fear.
15 Notwithstanding, the wall was finished in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth day of Elul.
16 And when all our enemies heard of it, all the heathen who were around us, they were afraid. And their courage failed them. For they knew that this work was done by our God.
17 And in these days, there were many of the princes of Judah whose letters went to Tobiah. And those of Tobiah came to them.
18 For there were many in Judah who had sworn allegiance to him. For he was the son-in-law of Shechaniah, the son of Arah. And his son, Jehohanan, had the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.
19 Yea, they spoke his praise before me, and told him my words. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
16 Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy - the son of a believing Jewish woman, but whose father was Greek
2 of whom the brothers at Lystra and Iconium reported well.
3 Paul wanted him to go forth with him. So, he took and circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in that area (for they all knew that his father was Greek).
4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered the decrees to keep, ordained by the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
5 And so the churches were established in the faith and increased in number daily.
6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia.
7 Then they came to Mysia and sought to go into Bithynia. But the Spirit did not allow them.
8 Therefore they passed through Mysia, and came down to Troas,
9 where a vision appeared to Paul in the night: A Macedonian man stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come into Macedonia, and help us!”
10 And after he had seen the vision, we immediately prepared to go into Macedonia, being assured that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.
11 Then went we forth from Troas. And with a straight course, we came to Samothrace, and the next day to Neapolis;
12 and from there to Philippi (which is the chief city in the parts of Macedonia, and whose inhabitants came from Rome to dwell there). And we stayed in that city some days.
13 And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the city, to a riverside where they customarily prayed. And we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
14 And a certain woman named Lydia (a seller of purple, of the city of the Thyatirians), who worshipped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart, so that she paid attention to the things which Paul spoke.
15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she implored us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” And she insisted.
16 And it happened that as we went to prayer, a certain maid having a spirit of divination (who made her masters much money with divining) met us.
17 She followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who show to you the way of salvation!”
18 And she did this for many days. But Paul, being annoyed, turned around and said to the spirit, “I command you in the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out the same hour.
19 Now when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace, to the Magistrates.
20 And they brought them to the governors, saying, “These Jewish men trouble our city,
21 “and preach ordinances which are not lawful for us to receive, nor to observe, seeing we are Romans!”
22 Then the people rose up together against them. And the governors tore their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
23 And when they had beaten them terribly, they cast them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely
24 (who, having received such a commandment, cast them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks).
25 Now at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed, and sang Psalms to God. And the prisoners heard them.
26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken. And immediately all the doors opened. And all the shackles were loosened.
27 Then the keeper of the prison awoke from his sleep. And when he saw the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and was about to kill himself (having assumed that the prisoners had escaped).
28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm! For we all are here!”
29 Then he called for a light and rushed in, trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas.
30 And he brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you and your household shall be saved.”
32 And they preached the Word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in the house.
33 Afterward, that same hour of the night, he took them and washed their wounds. And he was baptized immediately, with all who belonged to him.
34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them, and rejoiced that he, with all his household, believed in God.
35 And when it was day, the governors sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go!”
36 Then the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul, saying, “The governors have sent word to free you. Therefore, leave now. And go in peace.”
37 Then Paul said to them, “After they have beaten us openly (uncondemned Romans) and have cast us into prison, now they wish to thrust us out secretly? Certainly not! But let them come and bring us out.”
38 And the sergeants told these words to the governors, who were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.
39 Then they came and pleaded with them; and brought them out and asked them to leave the city.
40 And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they comforted them, and departed.
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