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.

¹He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! ²It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. ³Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. ⁴If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him." ⁵The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." ⁶The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. ⁷But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' ⁸and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'? ⁹Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. ¹⁰Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'" ¹¹It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. ¹²As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. ¹³They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" ¹⁴When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed. ¹⁵One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. ¹⁶He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? ¹⁸Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?" ¹⁹Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you." ²⁰Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation; ²¹neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you." ²²He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them, ²⁴for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. ²⁵But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. ²⁸Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. ³⁰It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. ³²Remember Lot's wife! ³³Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. ³⁴I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. ³⁵There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left." ³⁶{Some Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field, the one taken, and the other left."} ³⁷They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

¹He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, ²saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man. ³A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' ⁴He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, ⁵yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" ⁶The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. ⁷Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? ⁸I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" ⁹He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. ¹⁰"Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. ¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹²I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' ¹³But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' ¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." ¹⁵They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. ¹⁶Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁷Most assuredly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." ¹⁸A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" ¹⁹Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God. ²⁰You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'" ²¹He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up." ²²When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me." ²³But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich. ²⁴Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! ²⁵For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." ²⁶Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" ²⁷But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." ²⁸Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you." ²⁹He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, ³⁰who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life." ³¹He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. ³²For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. ³³They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again." ³⁴They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said. ³⁵It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. ³⁶Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. ³⁷They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. ³⁸He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" ³⁹Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" ⁴⁰Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, ⁴¹"What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again." ⁴²Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you." ⁴³Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.