Bible Reading Plan

Chapter 7

Warnings

¹ "^(C1)When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to take possession of it, and He drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, ^(C2)seven nations greater and mightier than you,² and when the LORD your God turns them over to you and you ^(F1)defeat them, ^(C1)you shall ^(F2)utterly destroy them. ^(C2)You shall not make a covenant with them ^(C3)nor be gracious to them.³ "Furthermore, ^(C1)you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your ^(F1)daughters to ^(F2)their sons, nor shall you take ^(F3)their daughters for your ^(F4)sons.⁴ "For ^(F1)they will turn your ^(F2)sons away from ^(F3)following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and ^(C1)He will quickly destroy you.⁵ "But this is what you shall do to them: ^(C1)you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their ^(F1)Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the fire.⁶ "For you are ^(C1)a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be ^(C2)a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ^(F1)earth.

⁷ "^(C1)The LORD did not ^(F1)make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples,⁸ but because the LORD loved you and kept the ^(C1)oath which He swore to your forefathers, ^(C2)the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of ^(F1)slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.⁹ "Know therefore that the LORD your God, ^(C1)He is God, ^(C2)the faithful God, ^(C3)who keeps ^(F1)His covenant and ^(F1)His faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who ^(C4)love Him and keep His commandments;¹⁰ but He ^(C1)repays those who hate Him to ^(F1)their faces, to eliminate ^(F2)them; He will not hesitate toward him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face.¹¹ "Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Promises of God

¹² "^(C1)Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep ^(F1)His covenant with you and ^(F1)His faithfulness which He swore to your forefathers.¹³ "And He will ^(C1)love you, bless you, and ^(C2)make you numerous; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the newborn of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, ^(F1)in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.¹⁴ "You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no sterile male or ^(C1)infertile female among you or among your cattle.¹⁵ "And ^(C1)the LORD will remove from you all sickness; and He will not inflict upon you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will give them to all who hate you.¹⁶ "You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God will turn over to you; ^(C1)your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^(C2)a snare to you.

¹⁷ "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I ^(C1)dispossess them?'¹⁸ you are not to be afraid of them; you shall ^(C1)remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:^19 (C1)the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.²⁰ "Indeed, the LORD your God will send ^(C1)the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish.²¹ "You are not to be terrified of them, because ^(C1)the LORD your God is in your midst, ^(C2)a great and awesome God.²² "^(C1)And the LORD your God will drive away these nations from you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, otherwise the ^(F1)wild animals would become too numerous for you.²³ "^(C1)But the LORD your God will turn them over to you, and will ^(F1)throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.²⁴ "^(C1)And He will hand over their kings to you, so that you will eliminate their name from under heaven; ^(C2)no one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.²⁵ "The carved images of their gods you are to ^(C1)burn with fire; you shall ^(C2)not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be ^(C3)trapped by it; for it is an ^(C4)abomination to the LORD your God.²⁶ "And you shall not bring an abomination into your house and become ^(C1)designated for destruction, like it; you are to utterly detest it, and you are to utterly loathe it, for it is something designated for destruction.

Chapter 27

^32 (C1)As they were coming out, they found a man of ^(C2)Cyrene named Simon, ^(F1)whom they compelled to carry His ^(F2)cross.

The Crucifixion

^33 (C1)And when they came to a place called ^(C2)Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull,^34 (C1)they gave Him ^(C2)wine mixed with ^(F1)bile to drink; and after tasting it, He was unwilling to drink it.

³⁵ And when they had crucified Him, ^(C1)they divided His garments among themselves by casting ^(F1)lots.³⁶ And sitting down, they began to ^(C1)keep watch over Him there.³⁷ And above His head they put up the charge against Him ^(F1)which read, "^(C1)THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

³⁸ At that time two ^(F1)rebels ^(*)were being crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left.³⁹ And those passing by were ^(F1)speaking abusively to Him, ^(C1)shaking their heads,⁴⁰ and saying, "^(C1)You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! ^(C2)If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross."⁴¹ In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying,⁴² "^(C1)He saved others; ^(F1)He cannot save Himself! ^(C2)He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.⁴³ "^(C1)HE HAS TRUSTED IN GOD; LET GOD RESCUE Him now, IF HE ^(F1)TAKES PLEASURE IN HIM; for He said, 'I am the Son of God.'"^44 (C1)And the ^(F1)rebels who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him in the same way.

^45 (C1)Now from the ^(F1)sixth hour darkness ^(F2)fell upon all the land until the ^(F3)ninth hour.⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "^(C1)ELI, ELI, LEMA SABAKTANEI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"⁴⁷ And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it, said, "This man is calling for Elijah."⁴⁸ And ^(C1)immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink.⁴⁹ But the rest of them said, "^(F1)Let us see if Elijah comes to save Him^(F2)."⁵⁰ And Jesus ^(C1)cried out again with a loud voice, and gave up His spirit.^51 (C1)And behold, ^(C2)the ^(F1)veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and ^(C3)the earth shook and the rocks were split.⁵² Also the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the ^(F1)saints who had ^(C1)fallen asleep were raised;⁵³ and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered ^(C1)the holy city and appeared to many.^54 (C1)Now as for the centurion and those who were with him ^(C2)keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw ^(C3)the earthquake and the other things that were happening, they became extremely frightened and said, "Truly this was ^(F1)(C4)the Son of God!"

^55 (C1)And many women were there watching from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee while ^(C2)caring for Him.⁵⁶ Among them were ^(C1)Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and ^(C2)the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Jesus Is Buried

^57 (C1)Now when it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea came, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.⁵⁸ This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.⁵⁹ And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,⁶⁰ and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock; and he rolled ^(C1)a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.⁶¹ And ^(C1)Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

⁶² Now on the next day, that is, the day which is after ^(C1)the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate,⁶³ and they said, "Sir, we remember that when that deceiver was still alive, He said, '^(C1)After three days I am rising.'⁶⁴ "Therefore, give orders for the tomb to be made secure until the third day; otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him, and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."⁶⁵ Pilate said to them, "You have a ^(C1)guard; go, make it as secure as you know how."⁶⁶ And they went and made the tomb secure with ^(C1)the guard, ^(C2)sealing ^(C3)the stone.