M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
17 ¶ And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and set up camp in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.
2 And the people chided with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? Why do ye tempt the LORD?
3 So the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses and said, Why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?
4 Then Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.
5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people and take with thee of the elders of Israel and thy rod, with which thou didst smite the river take in thine hand and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the sons of Israel and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
8 ¶ Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; but when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 And Moses’ hands were heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side; thus his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua disabled Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book and tell Joshua that I must utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it The LORD is my Banner, {YHWH-nissi}
16 for he said, Because Amalek lifted his hand against the throne of the LORD, the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
20 ¶ And it came to pass that on one of those days as he taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, the princes of the priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders
2 and spoke unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing, and answer me:
4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men?
5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
6 But and if we say, Of men, all the people will stone us; for they are certain that John was a prophet.
7 And they answered that they knew not from where.
8 Then Jesus said unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
9 ¶ And he began to speak this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country for a long time.
10 And at the season he sent a slave to the husbandmen that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard, but the husbandmen beat him and sent him away empty.
11 And again he sent another slave, and they beat him also and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty.
12 And again he sent a third, and they wounded him also and cast him out.
13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours.
15 So they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, May it not be!
17 But he beheld them and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
19 And the princes of the priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him, for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them; but they feared the people.
20 ¶ And they watched him and sent forth spies who feigned themselves just men that they might take hold of him as he was speaking, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither dost thou accept the person of any, but teachest the way of God with truth;
22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar or no?
23 But he, perceiving their craftiness, said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have? They answered and said, Caesar’s.
25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things which are God’s.
26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people, and they marvelled at his answer and were silent.
27 ¶ Then certain of the Sadducees came, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him,
28 saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
29 There were therefore seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died without children.
30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also, and they left no children and died.
32 Last of all the woman died also.
33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be? for seven had her to wife.
34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
35 but those who are accounted worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry, nor are given in marriage;
36 for neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed this at the bush when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for all live unto him.
39 ¶ Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.
40 And after that they dared not ask him any question at all.
41 And he said unto them, How do they say that the Christ is David’s son?
42 And David himself says in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand
43 until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
44 David therefore calls him Lord; how is he then his son?
45 Then in the audience of all the people, he said unto his disciples,
46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love greetings in the markets and the first seats in the synagogues and the first places at suppers;
47 who devour the houses of the widows and for a pretext make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
35 ¶ Elihu proceeded in his reasoning and said,
2 Dost thou think this to be right, when thou didst say, I am more righteous than God?
3 For thou didst say, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?
4 I will answer thee and thy companions with thee.
5 Look unto the heavens and see; and behold the heavens which are higher than thou.
6 If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or if thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7 If thou art righteous, what shalt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.
9 ¶ By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.
10 But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 There they shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look upon it.
14 ¶ For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, submit to judgment before him, and trust thou in him.
15 But now, because he has not visited in wrath; nor is it known in great extremity;
16 therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.
5 ¶ For we know that if the earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven,
3 if so be that we shall be found clothed and not naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, for we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon with life swallowing up that which is mortal.
5 Now he that has made us for this same thing is God, who has likewise given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight).
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
9 Therefore we also procure, whether present or absent, that we may please him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive according to that which they have done in the body, good or evil.
11 Therefore being certain of that terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
12 ¶ For we do not commend ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf that ye may have something to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.
13 For whether we are fools, it is unto God; or whether we are sane, it is for your cause.
14 For the charity of the Christ constrains us because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all are dead:
15 And that he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.
16 ¶ Therefore from now on we know no one according to the flesh: and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no longer.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.
18 And all this by God, who reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 for certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them and having placed in us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did exhort you by us; we beseech you in Christ’s name, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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