Bible In A Year

¹> Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

²Praise Yahweh, my soul, And don't forget all his benefits;

³Who forgives all your sins; Who heals all your diseases;

⁴Who redeems your life from destruction; Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

⁵Who satisfies your desire with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

⁶Yahweh executes righteous acts, And justice for all who are oppressed.

⁷He made known his ways to Moses, His deeds to the children of Israel.

⁸Yahweh is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

⁹He will not always accuse; Neither will he stay angry forever.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor repaid us for our iniquities.

¹¹For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

¹²As far as the east is from the west, So far has he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³Like a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

¹⁴For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

¹⁶For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

¹⁷But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, His righteousness to children's children;

¹⁸To those who keep his covenant, To those who remember to obey his precepts.

¹⁹Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

²⁰Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, Who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, Obeying the voice of his word.

²¹Praise Yahweh, all you hosts of his, You servants of his, who do his pleasure.

²²Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, In all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul.

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²The same was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.} it. ⁶There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. ⁸He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. ⁹The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. ¹¹He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. ¹²But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: ¹³who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. ¹⁵John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" ¹⁶From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. ¹⁷For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. ¹⁹This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" ²⁰He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Christ." ²¹They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." ²²They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" ²³He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said." ²⁴The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. ²⁵They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" ²⁶John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know. ²⁷He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen." ²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. ²⁹The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.' ³¹I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." ³²John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. ³³I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' ³⁴I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." ³⁵Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, ³⁶and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" ³⁷The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?" ³⁹He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.{4:00 PM.} ⁴⁰One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. ⁴¹He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".}). ⁴²He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). ⁴³On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." ⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" ⁴⁸Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." ⁴⁹Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!" ⁵⁰Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!" ⁵¹He said to him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

¹The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. ²Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. ³When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine." ⁴Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." ⁵His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." ⁶Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes{2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25 imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.} apiece. ⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim. ⁸He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it. ⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, ¹⁰and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" ¹¹This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. ¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. ¹³The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. ¹⁵He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables. ¹⁶To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up." ¹⁸The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?" ¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ²⁰The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" ²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. ²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. ²⁴But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, ²⁵and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.