M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

25 And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.

² And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

³ And Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were the Asshurim, and the Letushim, and the Leummim.

⁴ And the sons of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Enoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah.

⁵ And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

⁶ And to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and, while he yet lived, sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward to the east country.

⁷ And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: a hundred and seventy-five years.

⁸ And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and full [of days]; and was gathered to his peoples.

⁹ And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which was opposite to Mamre—

¹⁰ the field that Abraham had purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

¹¹ And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi.

¹² And these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's bondwoman, bore to Abraham.

¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names according to their generations: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

¹⁴ and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

¹⁵ Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah.

¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their hamlets and their encampments—twelve princes of their peoples.

¹⁷ And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples.

¹⁸ And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt, as one goes towards Assyria. He settled before the face of all his brethren.

¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

²¹ And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebecca his wife conceived.

²² And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

²³ And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And one people shall be stronger than the other people, And the elder shall serve the younger.

²⁴ And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

²⁵ And the first came out red—all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

²⁶ And after that came his brother out; and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

²⁷ And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man, dwelling in tents.

²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.

²⁹ And Jacob had cooked a dish; and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with the red—the red thing there, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.

³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me now thy birthright.

³² And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and of what use can the birthright be to me?

³³ And Jacob said, Swear unto me now. And he swore unto him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

³⁴ And Jacob gave Esau bread and the dish of lentils; and he ate and drank, and rose up and went away. Thus Esau despised the birthright.

24 And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple, and his disciples came to [him] to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

² And he answering said to them, Do ye not see all these things? Verily I say to you, Not a stone shall be left here upon a stone which shall not be thrown down.

³ And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign of thy coming and [the] completion of the age?

⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, See that no one mislead you.

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.

⁶ But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all [these things] must take place, but it is not yet the end.

⁷ For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.

⁸ But all these [are the] beginning of throes.

⁹ Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

¹⁰ And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;

¹¹ and many false prophets shall arise and shall mislead many;

¹² and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the most shall grow cold;

¹³ but he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.

¹⁴ And these glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole habitable earth, for a witness to all the nations, and then shall come the end.

¹⁵ When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which is spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in [what is a] holy place, (he that reads let him understand,)

¹⁶ then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;

¹⁷ let not him that is on the house come down to take the things out of his house;

¹⁸ and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment.

¹⁹ But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.

²⁰ But pray that your flight may not be in winter time nor on sabbath:

²¹ for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be;

²² and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short.

²³ Then if any one say to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or here, believe [it] not.

²⁴ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

²⁵ Behold, I have told you beforehand.

²⁶ If therefore they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth; behold, [he is] in the inner chambers, do not believe [it].

²⁷ For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁸ [For] wherever the carcase is, there will be gathered the eagles.

²⁹ But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³¹ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from [the one] extremity of [the] heavens to [the other] extremity of them.

³² But learn the parable from the fig-tree: When already its branch becomes tender and produces leaves, ye know that the summer is near.

³³ Thus also *ye*, when ye see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors.

³⁴ Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.

³⁶ But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of the heavens, but [my] Father alone.

³⁷ But as the days of Noe, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man.

³⁸ For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,

³⁹ and they knew not till the flood came and took all away; thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man.

⁴⁰ Then two shall be in the field, one is taken and one is left;

⁴¹ two [women] grinding at the mill, one is taken and one is left.

⁴² Watch therefore, for ye know not in what hour your Lord comes.

⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through [into].

⁴⁴ Wherefore *ye* also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye think not the Son of man comes.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find doing thus.

⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all his substance.

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

⁴⁹ and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;

⁵⁰ the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,

⁵¹ and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces),

² in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the fortress,

³ in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the provinces being before him;

⁴ when he shewed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the splendid magnificence of his grandeur many days, a hundred and eighty days.

⁵ And when these days were expired, the king made a feast to all the people that were present in Shushan the fortress, both to great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.

⁶ White, green, and blue [hangings] were fastened with cords of byssus and purple to silver rings and pillars of white marble; couches of gold and silver [lay] upon a pavement of red and white marble, and alabaster, and black marble.

⁷ And they gave drink in vessels of gold (the vessels being diverse one from another), and royal wine in abundance, according to the king's bounty.

⁸ And the drinking was, according to commandment, without constraint; for so the king had appointed to all the magnates of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

⁹ Also the queen Vashti made a feast for the women of the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

¹⁰ On the seventh day, when the king's heart was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of king Ahasuerus,

¹¹ to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown to shew the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was of beautiful countenance.

¹² But the queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king which was [sent] by the chamberlains; and the king was very wroth, and his fury burned in him.

¹³ And the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for so was the king's business [conducted] before all that knew law and judgment;

¹⁴ and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and who sat first in the kingdom),

¹⁵ What shall be done to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not performed the word of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

¹⁶ Then said Memucan before the king and the princes, The queen Vashti has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

¹⁷ For the act of the queen will come abroad to all women, so as to render their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when they shall say, The king Ahasuerus commanded the queen Vashti to be brought in before him, and she came not!

¹⁸ And the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's act, will say it this day to all the king's princes, and there will be contempt and anger enough.

¹⁹ If it please the king, let a royal order go forth from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it may not pass, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another that is better than she;

²⁰ and when the king's edict which he shall make shall be heard throughout his realm—for it is great—all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.

²¹ And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan.

²² And he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language, That every man should bear rule in his own house, and should speak according to the language of his people.

24 And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid their informations against Paul before the governor.

² And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy forethought,

³ we receive [it] always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

⁴ But that I may not too much intrude on thy time, I beseech thee to hear us briefly in thy kindness.

⁵ For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans;

⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, [and would have judged according to our law;

⁷ but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with great force out of our hands,

⁸ having commanded his accusers to come to thee;] of whom thou canst thyself, in examining [him], know the certainty of all these things of which we accuse him.

⁹ And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against [Paul], saying that these things were so.

¹⁰ But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.

¹¹ As thou mayest know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem,

¹² and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

¹³ neither can they make good the things of which they now accuse me.

¹⁴ But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;

¹⁵ having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.

¹⁶ For this cause I also exercise [myself] to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.

¹⁷ And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.

¹⁸ Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,

¹⁹ who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me;

²⁰ or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me when I stood before the council,

²¹ [other] than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching [the] resurrection of [the] dead.

²² And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair;

²³ ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.

²⁴ And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

²⁵ And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

²⁶ hoping at the same time that money would be given him by Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed with him.

²⁷ But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.