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 7; Exodus 25; Hebrews 10; 1 Timothy 2; Job 13; Psalms 75; Proverbs 13; 1 Samuel 26; Jeremiah 9; Acts 19.

John 7

1	After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2	Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3	His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4	For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.
5	For neither did his brethren believe in him.
6	Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready.
7	The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
8	Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
9	When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
10	But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11	Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12	And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
13	Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14	Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
15	And the Jews marveled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
16	Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
17	If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
18	He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
19	Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
20	The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
21	Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
22	Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
23	If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
24	Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
25	Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
26	But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
27	Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
28	Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29	But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
30	Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
31	And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
32	The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
33	Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
34	Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
35	Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
36	What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
37	In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
38	He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39	(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
40	Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
41	Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
42	Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
43	So there was a division among the people because of him.
44	And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
45	Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
46	The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
47	Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
48	Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
49	But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
50	Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
51	Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
52	They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
53	And every man went unto his own house.

Exodus 25

1	And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
2	Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
3	And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
4	And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
5	And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
6	Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7	Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
8	And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9	According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
10	And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
11	And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
12	And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
13	And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
14	And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
15	The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
16	And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
17	And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
18	And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
19	And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
20	And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
21	And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
22	And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
23	Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
24	And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
25	And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
26	And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
27	Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
28	And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
29	And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
30	And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me always.
31	And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
32	And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
33	Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
34	And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
35	And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
36	Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
37	And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
38	And the tongs thereof, and the censers thereof, shall be of pure gold.
39	Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
40	And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount.

Hebrews 10

1	For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2	For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3	But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4	For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5	Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6	In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7	Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8	Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9	Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10	By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11	And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12	But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13	From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14	For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15	Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16	This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17	And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18	Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19	Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20	By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21	And having a high priest over the house of God;
22	Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23	Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24	And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25	Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
26	For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27	But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28	He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29	Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30	For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31	It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32	But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
33	Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
34	For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35	Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.
36	For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37	For yet, a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38	Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39	But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

1 Timothy 2

1	I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2	For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3	For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
4	Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5	For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6	Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
7	Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
8	I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
9	In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.
10	But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
11	Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12	But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13	For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14	And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
15	Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Job 13

1	Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2	What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3	Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4	But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5	O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6	Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7	Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8	Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9	Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10	He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11	Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12	Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13	Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14	Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15	Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16	He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
17	Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18	Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19	Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20	Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21	Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22	Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23	How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24	Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25	Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26	For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27	Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28	And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Psalms 75

1	To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
2	When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3	The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4	I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5	Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6	For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7	But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
8	For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9	But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10	All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Proverbs 13

1	A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
2	A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
3	He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
4	The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
5	A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
6	Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
7	There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
8	The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
9	The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
10	Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
11	Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase.
12	Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
13	Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
14	The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
15	Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.
16	Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
17	A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
18	Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.
19	The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
20	He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
21	Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.
22	A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
23	Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
24	He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him quickly.
25	The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

1 Samuel 26

1	And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
2	Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
3	And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
4	David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
5	And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
6	Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
7	So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
8	Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
9	And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?
10	David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
11	The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
12	So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they got them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
13	Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of a hill afar off; a great space being between them:
14	And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
15	And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
16	This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
17	And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
18	And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
19	Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
20	Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
21	Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
22	And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
23	The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand today, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
24	And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
25	Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

Jeremiah 9

1	Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2	Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3	And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4	Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
5	And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6	Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
7	Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8	Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9	Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10	For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11	And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12	Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13	And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14	But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15	Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16	I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17	Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18	And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19	For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20	Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21	For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22	Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvest man, and none shall gather them.
23	Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24	But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25	Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26	Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Acts 19

1	And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
2	He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
3	And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
4	Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5	When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6	And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
7	And all the men were about twelve.
8	And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
9	But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
10	And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
11	And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
12	So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
13	Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
14	And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
15	And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
16	And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
17	And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
18	And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.
19	Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20	So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
21	After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
22	So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timothy and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
23	And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
24	For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
25	Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
26	Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
27	So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
28	And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
29	And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theater.
30	And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
31	And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theater.
32	Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
33	And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense unto the people.
34	But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
35	And when the town clerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
36	Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
37	For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
38	Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
39	But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.
40	For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
41	And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

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