Bible In A Year

¹Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, For his loving kindness endures forever.

²Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, Or fully declare all his praise?

³Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

⁴Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

⁵That I may see the prosperity of your chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, That I may glory with your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That he might make his mighty power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; So he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

¹²Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,

¹⁴But gave in to craving in the desert, And tested God in the wasteland.

¹⁵He gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp, And Aaron, Yahweh's saint.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped a molten image.

²⁰Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God, their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

²⁴Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

²⁵But murmured in their tents, And didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.

²⁶Therefore he swore to them That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

²⁷That he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, So the plague was stopped.

³¹That was credited to him for righteousness, For all generations to come.

³²They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

³³Because they were rebellious against his spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They didn't destroy the peoples, As Yahweh commanded them,

³⁵But mixed themselves with the nations, And learned their works.

³⁶They served their idols, Which became a snare to them.

³⁷Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

³⁸They shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

³⁹Thus were they defiled with their works, And prostituted themselves in their deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³Many times he delivered them, But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry.

⁴⁵He remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied By all those who carried them captive.

⁴⁷Save us, Yahweh, our God, Gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to your holy name, To triumph in your praise!

⁴⁸Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah!

¹After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ²Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. ³His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. ⁴For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." ⁵For even his brothers didn't believe in him. ⁶Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ⁷The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. ⁸You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." ⁹Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. ¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ¹¹The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" ¹²There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." ¹³Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. ¹⁴But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ¹⁵The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" ¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ¹⁷If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. ¹⁸He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. ¹⁹Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" ²⁰The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" ²¹Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. ²²Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. ²³If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath? ²⁴Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." ²⁵Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? ²⁶Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? ²⁷However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from." ²⁸Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know. ²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." ³⁰They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ³¹But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. ³³Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. ³⁴You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come." ³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'" ³⁷Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! ³⁸He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." ³⁹But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified. ⁴⁰Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." ⁴¹Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴²Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" ⁴³So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. ⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" ⁴⁶The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" ⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? ⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed." ⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" ⁵²They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." ⁵³Everyone went to his own house,

¹but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. ³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, ⁴they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. ⁵Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?" ⁶They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. ⁷But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." ⁸Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. ⁹They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. ¹⁰Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" ¹¹She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more." ¹²Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life." ¹³The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid." ¹⁴Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going. ¹⁵You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. ¹⁶Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. ¹⁷It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. ¹⁸I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me." ¹⁹They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." ²⁰Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. ²¹Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come." ²²The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'" ²³He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. ²⁴I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." ²⁵They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. ²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world." ²⁷They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father. ²⁸Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. ²⁹He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." ³⁰As he spoke these things, many believed in him. ³¹Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. ³²You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." ³³They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'" ³⁴Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. ³⁵A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. ³⁶If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. ³⁸I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." ³⁹They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this. ⁴¹You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God." ⁴²Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me. ⁴³Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. ⁴⁴You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. ⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me. ⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God." ⁴⁸Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?" ⁴⁹Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. ⁵⁰But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. ⁵¹Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death." ⁵²Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.' ⁵³Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" ⁵⁴Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. ⁵⁵You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word. ⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." ⁵⁷The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM." ⁵⁹Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.