Professor Horner’s Reading Plan

Read through the Bible in one year by reading 10 chapters a day from 10 different sections of the Bible using the Professor Grant Horner Bible reading plan.

Today, we are reading Mark 2; Numbers 2; 2 Corinthians 9; Revelation 11; Song of Solomon 3; Psalms 119; Proverbs 26; 1 Kings 15; Lam 1; Acts 7.

Mark 2

1	And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
2	And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
3	And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
4	And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
5	When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
6	But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
7	Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
8	And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
9	Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
10	But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
11	I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
12	And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
13	And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
14	And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
15	And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
16	And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
17	When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
18	And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
19	And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
20	But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
21	No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
22	And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
23	And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
24	And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
25	And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?
26	How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
27	And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
28	Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Numbers 2

1	And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2	Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
3	And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
4	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
5	And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.
6	And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
7	Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
8	And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
9	All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were a hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
10	On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
11	And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
12	And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
13	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
14	Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
15	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
16	All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were a hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
17	Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
18	On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
19	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
20	And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
21	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
22	Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
23	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
24	All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred thousand and eight thousand and a hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
25	The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
26	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
27	And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
28	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
29	Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
30	And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
31	All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were a hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
32	These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
33	But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
34	And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

2 Corinthians 9

1	For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2	For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
3	Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
4	Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
5	Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
6	But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7	Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8	And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9	(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth forever.
10	Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11	Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
12	For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13	While by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
14	And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15	Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

Revelation 11

1	And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2	But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3	And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4	These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5	And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6	These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7	And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8	And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9	And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10	And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11	And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12	And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13	And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14	The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15	And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.
16	And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshiped God,
17	saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18	And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19	And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Song of Solomon 3

1	By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
2	I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
3	The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
4	It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5	I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
6	Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
7	Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
8	They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
9	King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
10	He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11	Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Psalms 119

1	Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
2	Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
3	They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
4	Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
5	O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
6	Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
7	I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
8	I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
9	Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
10	With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
11	Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
12	Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
13	With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
14	I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
15	I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16	I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
17	Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
18	Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
19	I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
20	My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
21	Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
22	Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
23	Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
24	Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
25	My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
26	I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
27	Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
28	My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
29	Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
30	I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
31	I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
32	I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
33	Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
34	Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
35	Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
36	Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37	Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
38	Establish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
39	Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
40	Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
41	Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
42	So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
43	And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
44	So shall I keep thy law continually forever and ever.
45	And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
46	I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
47	And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
48	My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
49	Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
50	This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
51	The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
52	I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
53	Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54	Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55	I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
56	This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
57	Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
58	I entreated thy favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
59	I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
60	I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
61	The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
62	At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
63	I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
64	The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
65	Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
66	Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
67	Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68	Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69	The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
70	Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
71	It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
72	The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
73	Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
74	They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
75	I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
76	Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
77	Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
78	Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
79	Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
80	Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
81	My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
82	Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
83	For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
84	How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
85	The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
86	All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
87	They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
88	Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
89	Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
90	Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
91	They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
92	Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
93	I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
94	I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
95	The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
96	I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
97	O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98	Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99	I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100	I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101	I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102	I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
103	How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104	Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
105	Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
106	I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
107	I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
108	Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
109	My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
110	The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
111	Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112	I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes always, even unto the end.
113	I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
114	Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
115	Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
116	Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
117	Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
118	Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
119	Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
120	My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
121	I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
122	Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
123	Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
124	Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
125	I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
126	It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
127	Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128	Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
129	Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130	The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
131	I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
132	Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
133	Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134	Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135	Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
136	Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
137	Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
138	Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
139	My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
140	Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
141	I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
142	Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
143	Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
144	The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
145	I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
146	I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
147	I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
148	Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
149	Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
150	They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
151	Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
152	Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them forever.
153	Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
154	Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
155	Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
156	Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
157	Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
158	I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
159	Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
160	Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever.
161	Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
162	I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
163	I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
164	Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
165	Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
166	LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
167	My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
168	I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
169	Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
170	Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
171	My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172	My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
173	Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174	I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
175	Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
176	I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Proverbs 26

1	As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool.
2	As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
3	A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
4	Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
5	Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
6	He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
7	The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
8	As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool.
9	As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
10	The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
11	As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
12	Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
13	The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
14	As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
15	The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
16	The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
17	He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
18	As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
19	So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?
20	Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
21	As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
22	The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
23	Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
24	He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
25	When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
26	Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
27	Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
28	A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

1 Kings 15

1	Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
2	Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
3	And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
4	Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
5	Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6	And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7	Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8	And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9	And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
10	And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11	And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
12	And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13	And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
14	But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
15	And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
16	And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17	And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
18	Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
19	There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
20	So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
21	And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22	Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had built; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23	The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
24	And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
25	And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
26	And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
27	And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
28	Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
29	And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
30	Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel to sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
31	Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
32	And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
33	In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
34	And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

Lamentations 1

1	How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
2	She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3	Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4	The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5	Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6	And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7	Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
8	Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
9	Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
10	The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
11	All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
12	Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13	From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
14	The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
15	The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
16	For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
17	Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
18	The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
19	I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
20	Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
21	They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
22	Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Acts 7

1	Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
2	And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
3	And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
4	Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5	And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6	And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
7	And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
8	And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
9	And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10	And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11	Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
12	But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13	And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
14	Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
15	So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16	And were carried over into Shechem, and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem.
17	But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18	Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
19	The same dealt subtlely with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
20	In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
21	And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22	And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23	And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24	And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25	For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26	And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
27	But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
28	Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?
29	Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.
30	And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31	When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
32	Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33	Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
34	I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35	This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36	He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37	This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
38	This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
39	To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40	Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
41	And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42	Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
43	Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
44	Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45	Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
46	Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47	But Solomon built him a house.
48	Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
49	Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
50	Hath not my hand made all these things?
51	Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52	Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53	Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54	When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55	But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56	And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57	Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58	And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
59	And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60	And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

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