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 John 3; Deuteronomy 7; Romans 4; 1 Peter 3; Job 36; Psalms 10; Proverbs 5; 1 Chronicles 9; Ezekiel 37; Acts 20.

John 3

1	There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2	The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3	Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4	Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5	Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6	That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7	Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8	The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9	Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10	Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11	Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12	If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13	And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14	And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15	That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16	For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17	For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18	He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19	And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20	For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21	But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22	After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
23	And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24	For John was not yet cast into prison.
25	Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
26	And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27	John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28	Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29	He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30	He must increase, but I must decrease.
31	He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
32	And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
33	He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
34	For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35	The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
36	He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Deuteronomy 7

1	When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2	And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
3	Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4	For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5	But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6	For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7	The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8	But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9	Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10	And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11	Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12	Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers:
13	And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
14	Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15	And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16	And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
17	If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18	Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19	The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20	Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21	Thou shalt not be frightened at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22	And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23	But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
24	And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25	The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26	Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

Romans 4

1	What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2	For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3	For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4	Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5	But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6	Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7	Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8	Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
9	Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
10	How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11	And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
12	And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13	For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14	For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15	Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16	Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17	(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18	Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19	And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
20	He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21	And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22	And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23	Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24	But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25	Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.

1 Peter 3

1	Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2	While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
3	Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4	But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5	For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
6	Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
7	Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
8	Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9	Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
10	For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
11	Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
12	For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
13	And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
14	But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15	But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16	Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
17	For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
18	For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19	By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20	Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21	The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22	Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Job 36

1	Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2	Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
3	I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4	For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5	Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6	He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
7	He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them forever, and they are exalted.
8	And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
9	Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10	He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11	If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12	But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13	But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
14	They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15	He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16	Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17	But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18	Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19	Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20	Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21	Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22	Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
23	Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24	Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
25	Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26	Behold, God is great, and we know him not neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27	For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:
28	Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.
29	Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30	Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31	For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
32	With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh between.
33	The noise thereof showeth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.

Psalms 10

1	Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2	The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3	For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
4	The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5	His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6	He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7	His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8	He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9	He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10	He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11	He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12	Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
13	Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14	Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15	Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16	The LORD is King forever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17	LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18	To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Proverbs 5

1	My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2	That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3	For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4	But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5	Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6	Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.
7	Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8	Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9	Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10	Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
11	And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12	And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13	And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14	I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15	Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16	Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17	Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18	Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19	Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20	And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21	For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22	His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23	He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

1 Chronicles 9

1	So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
2	Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
3	And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;
4	Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
5	And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
6	And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
7	And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,
8	And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
9	And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
10	And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
11	And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
12	And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
13	And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
14	And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
15	And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;
16	And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
17	And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
18	Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
19	And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
20	And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.
21	And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
22	All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
23	So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
24	In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
25	And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
26	For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
27	And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
28	And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.
29	Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
30	And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
31	And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
32	And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
33	And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
34	These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
35	And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:
36	And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
37	And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
38	And Mikloth begot Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
39	And Ner begot Kish; and Kish begot Saul; and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
40	And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begot Micah.
41	And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
42	And Ahaz begot Jarah; and Jarah begot Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begot Moza;
43	And Moza begot Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
44	And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

Ezekiel 37

1	The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2	And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3	And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4	Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5	Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6	And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
7	So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8	And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9	Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10	So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11	Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12	Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13	And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14	And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15	The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16	Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17	And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18	And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these?
19	Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20	And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21	And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22	And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23	Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24	And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25	And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26	Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
27	My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28	And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.

Acts 20

1	And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
2	And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
3	And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
4	And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
5	These going before tarried for us at Troas.
6	And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
7	And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
8	And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
9	And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
10	And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
11	When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
12	And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
13	And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
14	And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
15	And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
16	For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
17	And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
18	And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
19	Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
20	And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,
21	Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
22	And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
23	Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
24	But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
25	And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
26	Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
27	For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
28	Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29	For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30	Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31	Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
32	And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
33	I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
34	Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
35	I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
36	And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
37	And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
38	Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

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