M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

2 And there goeth a man of the house of Levi, and he taketh the daughter of Levi,

² and the woman conceiveth, and beareth a son, and she seeth him that he [is] fair, and she hideth him three months,

³ and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;

⁴ and his sister stationeth herself afar off, to know what is done to him.

⁵ And a daughter of Pharaoh cometh down to bathe at the River, and her damsels are walking by the side of the River, and she seeth the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sendeth her handmaid, and she taketh it,

⁶ and openeth, and seeth him -- the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, `This is [one] of the Hebrews' children.'

⁷ And his sister saith unto the daughter of Pharaoh, `Do I go? when I have called for thee a suckling woman of the Hebrews, then she doth suckle the lad for thee;'

⁸ and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, `Go;' and the virgin goeth, and calleth the mother of the lad,

⁹ and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, `Take this lad away, and suckle him for me, and I -- I give thy hire;' and the woman taketh the lad, and suckleth him.

¹⁰ And the lad groweth, and she bringeth him in to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and she calleth his name Moses, and saith, `Because -- from the water I have drawn him.'

¹¹ And it cometh to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goeth out unto his brethren, and looketh on their burdens, and seeth a man, an Egyptian, smiting a man, a Hebrew, [one] of his brethren,

¹² and he turneth hither and thither, and seeth that there is no man, and smiteth the Egyptian, and hideth him in the sand.

¹³ And he goeth out on the second day, and lo, two men, Hebrews, striving! and he saith to the wrong-doer, `Why dost thou smite thy neighbour?'

¹⁴ and he saith, `Who set thee for a head and a judge over us? to slay me art thou saying [it], as thou hast slain the Egyptian?' and Moses feareth, and saith, `Surely the thing hath been known.'

¹⁵ And Pharaoh heareth of this thing, and seeketh to slay Moses, and Moses fleeth from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelleth in the land of Midian, and dwelleth by the well.

¹⁶ And to a priest of Midian [are] seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,

¹⁷ and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.

¹⁸ And they come in to Reuel their father, and he saith, `Wherefore have ye hastened to come in to-day?'

¹⁹ and they say, `A man, an Egyptian, hath delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also hath diligently drawn for us, and watereth the flock;'

²⁰ and he saith unto his daughters, `And where [is] he? why [is] this? -- ye left the man! call for him, and he doth eat bread.'

²¹ And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he giveth Zipporah his daughter to Moses,

²² and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Gershom, for he said, `A sojourner I have been in a strange land.'

²³ And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service;

²⁴ and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;

²⁵ and God seeth the sons of Israel, and God knoweth.

5 And it came to pass, in the multitude pressing on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,

² and he saw two boats standing beside the lake, and the fishers, having gone away from them, were washing the nets,

³ and having entered into one of the boats, that was Simon's, he asked him to put back a little from the land, and having sat down, was teaching the multitudes out of the boat.

⁴ And when he left off speaking, he said unto Simon, `Put back to the deep, and let down your nets for a draught;'

⁵ and Simon answering said to him, `Master, through the whole night, having laboured, we have taken nothing, but at thy saying I will let down the net.'

⁶ And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was breaking,

⁷ and they beckoned to the partners, who [are] in the other boat, having come, to help them; and they came, and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.

⁸ And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, `Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O lord;'

⁹ for astonishment seized him, and all those with him, at the draught of the fishes that they took,

¹⁰ and in like manner also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon; and Jesus said unto Simon, `Fear not, henceforth thou shalt be catching men;'

¹¹ and they, having brought the boats upon the land, having left all, did follow him.

¹² And it came to pass, in his being in one of the cities, that lo, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen on [his] face, he besought him, saying, `Sir, if thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me;'

¹³ and having stretched forth [his] hand, he touched him, having said, `I will; be thou cleansed;' and immediately the leprosy went away from him.

¹⁴ And he charged him to tell no one, `But, having gone away, shew thyself to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing according as Moses directed, for a testimony to them;'

¹⁵ but the more was the report going abroad concerning him, and great multitudes were coming together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities,

¹⁶ and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, on one of the days, that he was teaching, and there were sitting by Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who were come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was -- to heal them.

¹⁸ And lo, men bearing upon a couch a man, who hath been struck with palsy, and they were seeking to bring him in, and to place before him,

¹⁹ and not having found by what way they may bring him in because of the multitude, having gone up on the house-top, through the tiles they let him down, with the little couch, into the midst before Jesus,

²⁰ and he having seen their faith, said to him, `Man, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

²¹ And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, `Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?'

²² And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, `What reason ye in your hearts?

²³ which is easier -- to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?

²⁴ `And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins -- (he said to the one struck with palsy) -- I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.'

²⁵ And presently having risen before them, having taken up [that] on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,

²⁶ and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying -- `We saw strange things to-day.'

²⁷ And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, `Be following me;'

²⁸ and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him.

²⁹ And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),

³⁰ and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'

³¹ And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

³² I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

³³ And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications -- in like manner also those of the Pharisees -- but thine do eat and drink?'

³⁴ And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?

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

³⁶ And he spake also a simile unto them -- `No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that [is] from the new.

³⁷ `And no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;

³⁸ but new wine into new skins is to be put, and both are preserved together;

³⁹ and no one having drunk old [wine], doth immediately wish new, for he saith, The old is better.'

19 And Job answereth and saith: --

² Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

³ These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --

⁴ And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

⁵ If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

⁶ Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

⁷ Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

⁸ My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

⁹ Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

¹¹ And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

¹² Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

¹³ My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

¹⁴ Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,

¹⁵ Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.

¹⁶ To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.

¹⁷ My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.

¹⁸ Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

¹⁹ Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

²² Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

²³ Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

²⁴ With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

²⁵ That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

²⁶ And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God:

²⁷ Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

²⁸ But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

²⁹ Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a judgment.

6 Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

² have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

³ have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

⁴ of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

⁵ unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

⁶ but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

⁷ Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

⁸ but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

⁹ have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹² All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

¹³ the meats [are] for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body [is] not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

¹⁴ and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

¹⁵ Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make [them] members of an harlot? let it be not!

¹⁶ have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

¹⁷ And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

¹⁸ flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

¹⁹ Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

²⁰ for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.