Bible In A Year

¹> Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.

²Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart.

³Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

⁴You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them.

⁵Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!

⁶Then I wouldn't be disappointed, When I consider all of your commandments.

⁷I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, When I learn your righteous judgments.

⁸I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me.

⁹How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

¹⁰With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

¹¹I have hidden your word in my heart, That I might not sin against you.

¹²Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

¹³With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

¹⁴I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, As much as in all riches.

¹⁵I will meditate on your precepts, And consider your ways.

¹⁶I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

¹⁷Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.

¹⁸Open my eyes, That I may see wondrous things out of your law.

¹⁹I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.

²⁰My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

²¹You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, Who wander from your commandments.

²²Take reproach and contempt away from me, For I have kept your statutes.

²³Though princes sit and slander me, Your servant will meditate on your statutes.

²⁴Indeed your statutes are my delight, And my counselors.

²⁵My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

²⁶I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

²⁷Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

²⁸My soul is weary with sorrow: Strengthen me according to your word.

²⁹Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

³⁰I have chosen the way of truth. I have set my heart on your law.

³¹I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed.

³²I run in the path of your commandments, For you have set my heart free.

³³Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

³⁴Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

³⁵Direct me in the path of your commandments, For I delight in them.

³⁶Turn my heart toward your statutes, Not toward selfish gain.

³⁷Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

³⁸Fulfill your promise to your servant, That you may be feared.

³⁹Take away my disgrace that I dread, For your ordinances are good.

⁴⁰Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

⁴¹Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, Your salvation, according to your word.

⁴²So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, For I trust in your word.

⁴³Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, For I put my hope in your ordinances.

⁴⁴So I will obey your law continually, Forever and ever.

⁴⁵I will walk in liberty, For I have sought your precepts.

⁴⁶I will also speak of your statutes before kings, And will not be disappointed.

⁴⁷I will delight myself in your commandments, Because I love them.

⁴⁸I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

⁴⁹Remember your word to your servant, Because you gave me hope.

⁵⁰This is my comfort in my affliction, For your word has revived me.

⁵¹The arrogant mock me excessively, But I don't swerve from your law.

⁵²I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, And have comforted myself.

⁵³Indignation has taken hold on me, Because of the wicked who forsake your law.

⁵⁴Your statutes have been my songs, In the house where I live.

⁵⁵I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, And I obey your law.

⁵⁶This is my way, That I keep your precepts.

⁵⁷Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

⁵⁸I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

⁵⁹I considered my ways, And turned my steps to your statutes.

⁶⁰I will hurry, and not delay, To obey your commandments.

⁶¹The ropes of the wicked bind me, But I won't forget your law.

⁶²At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, Because of your righteous ordinances.

⁶³I am a friend of all those who fear you, Of those who observe your precepts.

⁶⁴The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

⁶⁵Do good to your servant, According to your word, Yahweh.

⁶⁶Teach me good judgment and knowledge, For I believe in your commandments.

⁶⁷Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.

⁶⁸You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.

⁶⁹The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

⁷⁰Their heart is as callous as the fat, But I delight in your law.

⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn your statutes.

⁷²The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

⁷³Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

⁷⁴Those who fear you will see me and be glad, Because I have put my hope in your word.

⁷⁵Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, That in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

⁷⁶Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, According to your word to your servant.

⁷⁷Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; For your law is my delight.

⁷⁸Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

⁷⁹Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.

⁸⁰Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, That I may not be disappointed.

⁸¹My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

⁸²My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

⁸³For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.

⁸⁴How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

⁸⁵The proud have dug pits for me, Contrary to your law.

⁸⁶All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

⁸⁷They had almost wiped me from the earth, But I didn't forsake your precepts.

⁸⁸Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, So I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

⁸⁹Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.

⁹⁰Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

⁹¹Your laws remain to this day, For all things serve you.

⁹²Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

⁹³I will never forget your precepts, For with them, you have revived me.

⁹⁴I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

⁹⁵The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

⁹⁶I have seen a limit to all perfection, But your commands are boundless.

⁹⁷How love I your law! It is my meditation all day.

⁹⁸Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For your commandments are always with me.

⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers, For your testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts.

¹⁰¹I have kept my feet from every evil way, That I might observe your word.

¹⁰²I have not turned aside from your ordinances, For you have taught me.

¹⁰³How sweet are your promises to my taste, More than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰⁴Through your precepts, I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.

¹⁰⁵Your word is a lamp to my feet, And a light for my path.

¹⁰⁶I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will obey your righteous ordinances.

¹⁰⁷I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

¹⁰⁸Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.

¹⁰⁹My soul is continually in my hand, Yet I won't forget your law.

¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.

¹¹¹I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, For they are the joy of my heart.

¹¹²I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, Even to the end.

¹¹³I hate double-minded men, But I love your law.

¹¹⁴You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

¹¹⁵Depart from me, you evildoers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.

¹¹⁶Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

¹¹⁷Hold me up, and I will be safe, And will have respect for your statutes continually.

¹¹⁸You reject all those who stray from your statutes, For their deceit is in vain.

¹¹⁹You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

¹²⁰My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

¹²¹I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me to my oppressors.

¹²²Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me.

¹²³My eyes fail looking for your salvation, For your righteous word.

¹²⁴Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

¹²⁵I am your servant. Give me understanding, That I may know your testimonies.

¹²⁶It is time to act, Yahweh, For they break your law.

¹²⁷Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, Yes, more than pure gold.

¹²⁸Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

¹²⁹Your testimonies are wonderful, Therefore my soul keeps them.

¹³⁰The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

¹³¹I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for your commandments.

¹³²Turn to me, and have mercy on me, As you always do to those who love your name.

¹³³Establish my footsteps in your word. Don't let any iniquity have dominion over me.

¹³⁴Redeem me from the oppression of man, So I will observe your precepts.

¹³⁵Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.

¹³⁶Streams of tears run down my eyes, Because they don't observe your law.

¹³⁷You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

¹³⁸You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

¹³⁹My zeal wears me out, Because my enemies ignore your words.

¹⁴⁰Your promises have been thoroughly tested, And your servant loves them.

¹⁴¹I am small and despised. I don't forget your precepts.

¹⁴²Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

¹⁴³Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

¹⁴⁴Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

¹⁴⁵I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

¹⁴⁶I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

¹⁴⁷I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

¹⁴⁸My eyes stay open through the night watches, That I might meditate on your word.

¹⁴⁹Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

¹⁵⁰They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

¹⁵¹You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

¹⁵²Of old I have known from your testimonies, That you have founded them forever.

¹⁵³Consider my affliction, and deliver me, For I don't forget your law.

¹⁵⁴Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked, For they don't seek your statutes.

¹⁵⁶Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.

¹⁵⁷Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.

¹⁵⁸I look at the faithless with loathing, Because they don't observe your word.

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.

¹⁶⁰All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

¹⁶¹Princes have persecuted me without a cause, But my heart stands in awe of your words.

¹⁶²I rejoice at your word, As one who finds great spoil.

¹⁶³I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

¹⁶⁴Seven times a day, I praise you, Because of your righteous ordinances.

¹⁶⁵Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

¹⁶⁶I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

¹⁶⁷My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

¹⁶⁸I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, For all my ways are before you.

¹⁶⁹Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

¹⁷⁰Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

¹⁷¹Let my lips utter praise, For you teach me your statutes.

¹⁷²Let my tongue sing of your word, For all your commandments are righteousness.

¹⁷³Let your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen your precepts.

¹⁷⁴I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

¹⁷⁵Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

¹⁷⁶I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments.

¹It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him. ²Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. ³Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" ⁴But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go. ⁵He answered them, "Which of you, if your son{TR reads "donkey" instead of "son"} or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?" ⁶They couldn't answer him regarding these things. ⁷He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, ⁸"When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, ⁹and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. ¹⁰But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. ¹¹For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." ¹²He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. ¹³But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; ¹⁴and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous." ¹⁵When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!" ¹⁶But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. ¹⁷He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.' ¹⁸They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.' ¹⁹"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.' ²⁰"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.' ²¹"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.' ²²"The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.' ²³"The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. ²⁴For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.'" ²⁵Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, ²⁶"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple. ²⁷Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple. ²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? ²⁹Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, ³⁰saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.' ³¹Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³²Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace. ³³So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple. ³⁴Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? ³⁵It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

¹Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. ²The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them." ³He told them this parable. ⁴"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? ⁵When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' ⁷I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. ⁸Or what woman, if she had ten drachma{A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.} coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? ⁹When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.' ¹⁰Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting." ¹¹He said, "A certain man had two sons. ¹²The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. ¹³Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. ¹⁴When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. ¹⁵He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ¹⁶He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. ¹⁷But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger! ¹⁸I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. ¹⁹I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."' ²⁰"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. ²¹The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' ²²"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. ²³Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate; ²⁴for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate. ²⁵"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. ²⁶He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on. ²⁷He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.' ²⁸But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him. ²⁹But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. ³⁰But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.' ³¹"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. ³²But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"

¹He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. ²He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.' ³"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. ⁴I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.' ⁵Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?' ⁶He said, 'A hundred batos{100 batos is about 395 litres, 104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.} of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.' ⁷Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors{ 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels. } of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.' ⁸"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. ⁹I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. ¹⁰He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. ¹¹If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? ¹²If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? ¹³No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon{"Mammon" refers to riches or a false god of wealth.}." ¹⁴The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. ¹⁵He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. ¹⁶The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. ¹⁷But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. ¹⁸Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. ¹⁹"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. ²⁰A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, ²¹and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. ²²It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. ²³In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. ²⁴He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' ²⁵"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. ²⁶Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.' ²⁷"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house; ²⁸for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.' ²⁹"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.' ³⁰"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' ³¹"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"