M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

13 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and of beast; for it is mine.

³ And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD has brought you out of here with a strong hand; therefore, ye shall not eat with leaven.

⁴ This day ye came out in the month Abib.

⁵ And when the LORD shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt do this service in this month.

⁶ Thou shalt eat without leaven for seven days, and the seventh day shall be a feast unto the LORD.

⁷ Bread without leaven shall be eaten the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen with thee, neither shall there be any leaven in all thy borders.

⁸ And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when he brought me out of Egypt.

⁹ And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand and for a memorial before thine eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought thee out of Egypt.

¹⁰ Thou shalt, therefore, keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

¹¹ ¶ And it shall be when the LORD shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall have given it to thee,

¹² that thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that opens the womb and in the same manner every firstborn that opens the wombs of thy animals; the males shall be the LORD’s.

¹³ And every firstborn of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; and if thou wilt not ransom it, then thou shalt cut off its head; and in the same manner thou shalt ransom all the human firstborn among thy sons.

¹⁴ And it shall be when thy son asks thee in time to come, saying, What is this? Thou shalt say unto him, With a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery;

¹⁵ and it came to pass when Pharaoh was hardening himself to not let us go that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt from the human firstborn to the firstborn of the beast; therefore, I sacrifice to the LORD every male that opens the womb, and I ransom every firstborn of my sons.

¹⁶ And it shall be for a token upon thy hand, and for a memorial before thine eyes: That the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

¹⁷ ¶ And it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go that God did not lead them through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt;

¹⁸ but God led the people round about through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ And Moses also took the bones of Joseph with him, who had made the sons of Israel swear, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away from here with you.

²⁰ And they took their journey from Succoth and encamped in Etham in the edge of the wilderness.

²¹ And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light that they might walk by day and by night.

²² He never took away the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.

16 ¶ And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

² And he called him and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou may no longer be steward.

³ Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes the stewardship away from me; I cannot dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

⁴ I know what I shall do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

⁵ So he called each one of his lord’s debtors unto him and said unto the first, How much dost thou owe unto my lord?

⁶ And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.

⁷ Then said he to another, And how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty.

⁸ And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done discreetly; for the sons of this age are in their generation more prudent than the sons of light.

⁹ And I say unto you, Make friends unto yourselves with the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when these fail, you may be received into eternal dwellings.

¹⁰ He that is faithful with little is faithful also with much, and he that is unjust with little is unjust also with much.

¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true?

¹² And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

¹³ No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and whosoever will presses into it.

¹⁷ And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fail.

¹⁸ Whosoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whosoever marries her that is put away of her husband commits adultery.

¹⁹ ¶ There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;

²⁰ and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores

²¹ and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

²² And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom; the rich man also died and was buried;

²³ and in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁴ And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime didst receive thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented.

²⁶ And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass from there to us.

²⁷ Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou would send him to my father’s house,

²⁸ for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

²⁹ Abraham said unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

³⁰ And he said, No, father Abraham; but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

³¹ And he said unto him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.

31 ¶ I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid?

² For what reward would God give me from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

³ Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity?

⁴ Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

⁵ If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit,

⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.

⁷ If my step has turned out of the way and my heart walked after my eyes and if any blot has cleaved to my hands,

⁸ then let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out.

⁹ ¶ If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or if I have laid in wait at my neighbour’s door,

¹⁰ then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

¹¹ For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven.

¹² For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase.

¹³ If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;

¹⁴ what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?

¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶ ¶ If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

¹⁸ (for from my youth the fatherless was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb)

¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without a covering;

²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;

²² then let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint.

²³ For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power.

²⁴ ¶ If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁶ if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty;

²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand;

²⁸ this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign.

²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him;

³⁰ for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;

³¹ when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never be satisfied.

³² The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller.

³³ ¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom;

³⁴ if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

³⁵ Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.

³⁶ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me.

³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him.

³⁸ If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain;

³⁹ if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;

⁴⁰ let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

1 ¶ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

² Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

⁴ who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵ For in the same manner that the sufferings of the Christ abound in us, so also our consolation abounds by Christ.

⁶ And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and saving health, which is effected in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and saving health.

⁷ ¶ And our hope of you is steadfast, being certain, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

⁸ Because, brothers, we would not have you ignore our tribulation which was done unto us in Asia, that we were burdened beyond our strength, in such a manner that we despaired even of life:

⁹ But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

¹¹ ye also helping us with prayer, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

¹² ¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly towards you.

¹³ For we write no other things unto you than what ye read or also know, and I trust ye shall know them even to the end

¹⁴ as also ye have known in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁵ ¶ And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before that ye might have a second grace

¹⁶ and to pass by you into Macedonia and to come again out of Macedonia unto you and of you to be sent forward to Judaea.

¹⁷ When I, therefore, was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that of me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?

¹⁸ But God is faithful that our word toward you has not been yes and no.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, has not been yes and no, but in him was yes.

²⁰ For all the promises of God are yes in him, and in him Amen, by us for the glory of God.

²¹ Now he who confirms us with you unto Christ and has anointed us is God;

²² who has also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ Moreover I call God for a witness upon my soul that I have not yet come unto Corinth to spare you.

²⁴ Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy, for by faith ye stand.