Two-Year Chronological Bible Reading Plan (First Year-August)

Relentless Love: Reflections on the Book of Jonah

Wisdom: A Weapon of War

Acts 20 | Encouragement in Goodbyes

Spiritual Training: The Discipline of Fasting and Solitude

The Spiritual Significance of KEYS in the Bible

When God Is Silent: Finding Faith in the Waiting

Time

How to Find Jesus for Yourself

Provision

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 <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1">The Altar of Burnt Offering</div><div class="p"> 1&#8220;Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits#27:1 That is, about 4 1/2 feet or about 1.4 meters high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.#27:1 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters long and wide 2Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze. 3Make all its utensils of bronze&#8212;its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans. 4Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network. 5Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar. 6Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. 7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.</div><div class="s1">The Courtyard</div><div class="p"> 9&#8220;Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits#27:9 That is, about 150 feet or about 45 meters; also in verse 11 long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen, 10with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. 11The north side shall also be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.</div><div class="p"> 12&#8220;The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits#27:12 That is, about 75 feet or about 23 meters; also in verse 13 wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. 13On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide. 14Curtains fifteen cubits#27:14 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters; also in verse 15 long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases, 15and curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on the other side, with three posts and three bases.</div><div class="p"> 16&#8220;For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits#27:16 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen&#8212;the work of an embroiderer&#8212;with four posts and four bases. 17All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands and hooks, and bronze bases. 18The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,#27:18 That is, about 150 feet long and 75 feet wide or about 45 meters long and 23 meters wide with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits#27:18 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters high, and with bronze bases. 19All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.</div><div class="s1">Oil for the Lampstand</div><div class="p"> 20&#8220;Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.</div>
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 <div class="label">81</div><div class="cl">Psalm 81#In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. According to gittith.#Title: Probably a musical term Of Asaph.</div><div class="q1"> 1Sing for joy to God our strength;</div><div class="q2">shout aloud to the God of Jacob!</div><div class="q1"> 2Begin the music, strike the timbrel,</div><div class="q2">play the melodious harp and lyre.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3Sound the ram&#8217;s horn at the New Moon,</div><div class="q2">and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;</div><div class="q1"> 4this is a decree for Israel,</div><div class="q2">an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</div><div class="q1"> 5When God went out against Egypt,</div><div class="q2">he established it as a statute for Joseph.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">I heard an unknown voice say:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6&#8220;I removed the burden from their shoulders;</div><div class="q2">their hands were set free from the basket.</div><div class="q1"> 7In your distress you called and I rescued you,</div><div class="q2">I answered you out of a thundercloud;</div><div class="q2">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.#81:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.</div><div class="q1"> 8Hear me, my people, and I will warn you&#8212;</div><div class="q2">if you would only listen to me, Israel!</div><div class="q1"> 9You shall have no foreign god among you;</div><div class="q2">you shall not worship any god other than me.</div><div class="q1"> 10I am the Lord your God,</div><div class="q2">who brought you up out of Egypt.</div><div class="q1">Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11&#8220;But my people would not listen to me;</div><div class="q2">Israel would not submit to me.</div><div class="q1"> 12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts</div><div class="q2">to follow their own devices.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13&#8220;If my people would only listen to me,</div><div class="q2">if Israel would only follow my ways,</div><div class="q1"> 14how quickly I would subdue their enemies</div><div class="q2">and turn my hand against their foes!</div><div class="q1"> 15Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,</div><div class="q2">and their punishment would last forever.</div><div class="q1"> 16But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;</div><div class="q2">with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">82</div><div class="cl">Psalm 82</div><div class="d">A psalm of Asaph.</div><div class="q1"> 1God presides in the great assembly;</div><div class="q2">he renders judgment among the &#8220;gods&#8221;:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 2&#8220;How long will you#82:2 The Hebrew is plural. defend the unjust</div><div class="q2">and show partiality to the wicked?#82:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.</div><div class="q1"> 3Defend the weak and the fatherless;</div><div class="q2">uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.</div><div class="q1"> 4Rescue the weak and the needy;</div><div class="q2">deliver them from the hand of the wicked.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5&#8220;The &#8216;gods&#8217; know nothing, they understand nothing.</div><div class="q2">They walk about in darkness;</div><div class="q2">all the foundations of the earth are shaken.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6&#8220;I said, &#8216;You are &#8220;gods&#8221;;</div><div class="q2">you are all sons of the Most High.&#8217;</div><div class="q1"> 7But you will die like mere mortals;</div><div class="q2">you will fall like every other ruler.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8Rise up, O God, judge the earth,</div><div class="q2">for all the nations are your inheritance.</div>
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 <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1">The Parable of the Tenants</div><div class="p"> 1Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: &#8220;A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 2At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. 5He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.</div><div class="p"> 6 &#8220;He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, &#8216;They will respect my son.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 7 &#8220;But the tenants said to one another, &#8216;This is the heir. Come, let&#8217;s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.&#8217; 8So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.</div><div class="p"> 9 &#8220;What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10Haven&#8217;t you read this passage of Scripture:</div><div class="q1"> &#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The stone the builders rejected</div><div class="q2"> has become the cornerstone;</div><div class="q1"> 11 the Lord has done this,</div><div class="q2"> and it is marvelous in our eyes&#8217; # 12:11 
 Psalm 118:22,23 ?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 12Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.</div><div class="s1">Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</div><div class="p"> 13Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14They came to him and said, &#8220;Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren&#8217;t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax#12:14 A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens to Caesar or not? 15Should we pay or shouldn&#8217;t we?&#8221;</div><div class="p">But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. &#8220;Why are you trying to trap me?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.&#8221; 16They brought the coin, and he asked them, &#8220;Whose image is this? And whose inscription?&#8221;</div><div class="p">&#8220;Caesar&#8217;s,&#8221; they replied.</div><div class="p"> 17Then Jesus said to them, &#8220;Give back to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s and to God what is God&#8217;s.&#8221;</div><div class="p">And they were amazed at him.</div><div class="s1">Marriage at the Resurrection</div><div class="p"> 18Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;Moses wrote for us that if a man&#8217;s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. 22In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. 23At the resurrection#12:23 Some manuscripts resurrection, when people rise from the dead, whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 24Jesus replied, &#8220;Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 26Now about the dead rising&#8212;have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, &#8216;I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob&#8217;#12:26 Exodus 3:6? 27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!&#8221;</div><div class="s1">The Greatest Commandment</div><div class="p"> 28One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, &#8220;Of all the commandments, which is the most important?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 29 &#8220;The most important one,&#8221; answered Jesus, &#8220;is this: &#8216;Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.#12:29 Or The Lord our God is one Lord 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.&#8217;#12:30 Deut. 6:4,5 31The second is this: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;#12:31 Lev. 19:18 There is no commandment greater than these.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 32&#8220;Well said, teacher,&#8221; the man replied. &#8220;You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. 33To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 34When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, &#8220;You are not far from the kingdom of God.&#8221; And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.</div><div class="s1">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</div><div class="p"> 35While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, &#8220;Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David? 36David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:</div><div class="q1"> &#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</div><div class="q2"> &#8220;Sit at my right hand</div><div class="q1"> until I put your enemies</div><div class="q2"> under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217; # 12:36 
 Psalm 110:1
 </div><div class="m"> 37 David himself calls him &#8216;Lord.&#8217; How then can he be his son?&#8221;</div><div class="p">The large crowd listened to him with delight.</div><div class="s1">Warning Against the Teachers of the Law</div><div class="p"> 38As he taught, Jesus said, &#8220;Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, 39and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. 40They devour widows&#8217; houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">The Widow&#8217;s Offering</div><div class="p"> 41Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.</div><div class="p"> 43Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, &#8220;Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything&#8212;all she had to live on.&#8221;</div>
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