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 Matthew 6; Genesis 6; Romans 6; 2 Thessalonians 1; Job 6; Psalms 6; Proverbs 6; Joshua 6; Isaiah 6; Acts 6.

Matthew 6

1	Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2	Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3	But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4	That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5	And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6	But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7	But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8	Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9	After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10	Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11	Give us this day our daily bread.
12	And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
14	For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15	But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16	Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
17	But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18	That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
19	Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20	But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21	For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22	The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23	But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24	No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25	Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26	Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27	Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28	And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29	And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30	Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31	Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32	(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: ) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33	But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34	Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Genesis 6

1	And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2	That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3	And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
4	There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5	And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6	And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7	And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8	But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9	These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10	And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11	The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12	And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13	And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14	Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15	And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16	A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17	And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18	But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
19	And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20	Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21	And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22	Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Romans 6

1	What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2	God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3	Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4	Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5	For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6	Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7	For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8	Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9	Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10	For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11	Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12	Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13	Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14	For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15	What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16	Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17	But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18	Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19	I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20	For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21	What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22	But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23	For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Thessalonians 1

1	Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2	Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3	We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4	So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5	Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6	Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7	And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11	Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12	That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Job 6

1	But Job answered and said,
2	Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3	For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
4	For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
5	Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6	Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7	The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
8	Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9	Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10	Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11	What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
12	Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
13	Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
14	To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
15	My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
16	Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
17	What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18	The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19	The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20	They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
21	For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
22	Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23	Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24	Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25	How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
26	Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27	Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
28	Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29	Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
30	Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Psalms 6

1	To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2	Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
3	My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
4	Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
5	For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
6	I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7	Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
8	Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
9	The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
10	Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

Proverbs 6

1	My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2	Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3	Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
4	Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5	Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6	Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7	Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8	Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
9	How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10	Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11	So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.
12	A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
13	He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
14	Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15	Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
16	These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17	A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18	A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19	A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
20	My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21	Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22	When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23	For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
24	To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25	Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26	For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
27	Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
28	Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
29	So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
30	Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
31	But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
32	But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
33	A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
34	For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35	He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Joshua 6

1	Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
2	And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor.
3	And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4	And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5	And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
6	And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
7	And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
8	And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
9	And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rearward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
10	And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
11	So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12	And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
13	And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rearward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
14	And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
15	And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16	And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
17	And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18	And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
19	But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
20	So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21	And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
22	But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye swore unto her.
23	And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
24	And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
25	And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26	And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
27	So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

Isaiah 6

1	In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2	Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3	And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4	And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5	Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6	Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7	And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8	Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9	And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10	Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11	Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12	And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13	But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

Acts 6

1	And in those days, when the number of the disciples were multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
2	Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
3	Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
4	But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
5	And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
6	Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
7	And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
8	And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
9	Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
10	And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
11	Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12	And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
13	And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
14	For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
15	And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

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