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 16; Deuteronomy 11; 2 Corinthians 7; James 4; Job 41; Psalms 51; Proverbs 10; 2 Samuel 22; Jeremiah 35; Acts 15.

John 16

1	These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2	They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
3	And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4	But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
5	But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
6	But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
7	Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
8	And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9	Of sin, because they believe not on me;
10	Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
11	Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
12	I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13	Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
14	He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.
15	All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
16	A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
17	Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
18	They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
19	Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
20	Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
21	A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
22	And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
23	And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24	Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25	These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.
26	At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
27	For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
28	I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
29	His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
30	Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
31	Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
32	Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33	These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Deuteronomy 11

1	Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.
2	And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
3	And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
4	And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
5	And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
6	And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
7	But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8	Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
9	And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10	For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
11	But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
12	A land which the LORD thy God careth for the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13	And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14	That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
15	And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
16	Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17	And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
18	Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19	And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20	And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
21	That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22	For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
23	Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
24	Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
25	There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
26	Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
27	A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
28	And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
29	And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
30	Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
31	For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
32	And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

2 Corinthians 7

1	Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2	Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
3	I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
4	Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
5	For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
6	Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
7	And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
8	For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
9	Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
10	For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
11	For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
12	Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
13	Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
14	For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
15	And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
16	I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

James 4

1	From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2	Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3	Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4	Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5	Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6	But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7	Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8	Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9	Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11	Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12	There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13	Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14	Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15	For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16	But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17	Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Job 41

1	Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2	Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3	Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4	Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant forever?
5	Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6	Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7	Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8	Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9	Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10	None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11	Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12	I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13	Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14	Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15	His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16	One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17	They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18	By his sneezes a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19	Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20	Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21	His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22	In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23	The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24	His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25	When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26	The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27	He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28	The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29	Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30	Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31	He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32	He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33	Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34	He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Psalms 51

1	To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2	Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3	For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4	Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5	Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6	Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7	Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8	Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9	Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10	Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11	Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12	Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13	Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14	Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15	O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
16	For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17	The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18	Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19	Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Proverbs 10

1	The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
2	Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
3	The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
4	He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
5	He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
6	Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
7	The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
8	The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
9	He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
10	He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
11	The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
12	Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
13	In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14	Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
15	The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16	The labor of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17	He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
18	He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
19	In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
20	The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
21	The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
22	The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
23	It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
24	The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
25	As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
26	As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
27	The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
28	The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
29	The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
30	The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
31	The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
32	The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

2 Samuel 22

1	And David spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2	And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3	The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; thou savest me from violence.
4	I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5	When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6	The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
7	In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8	Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9	There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10	He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11	And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
12	And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
13	Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
14	The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
15	And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16	And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17	He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
18	He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
19	They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
20	He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21	The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
22	For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23	For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
24	I was also upright before him and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
25	Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
26	With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.
27	With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself unsavory.
28	And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
29	For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
30	For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
31	As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
32	For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
33	God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
34	He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
35	He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
36	Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
37	Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38	I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39	And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40	For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
41	Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42	They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43	Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44	Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45	Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46	Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47	The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
48	It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
49	And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
50	Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
51	He is the tower of salvation for his king: and showeth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed forevermore.

Jeremiah 35

1	The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
2	Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
3	Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
4	And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
5	And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
6	But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons forever:
7	Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
8	Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
9	Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
10	But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
11	But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
12	Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
13	Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
14	The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
15	I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
16	Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
17	Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
18	And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
19	Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.

Acts 15

1	And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
2	When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
3	And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
4	And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
5	But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
6	And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7	And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8	And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9	And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10	Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11	But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12	Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13	And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14	Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15	And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16	After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17	That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18	Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19	Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20	But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21	For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
22	Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
23	And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
24	Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
25	It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26	Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27	We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
28	For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
29	That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well, Fare ye well.
30	So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
31	Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
32	And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
33	And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
34	Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
35	Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
36	And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
37	And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
38	But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
39	And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
40	And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
41	And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

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