Daily Bible Reading Plan

• Job 21 (2:10)

Job 21 1 Then Job answered, 2 "Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation. 3 "Bear with me that I may speak ; Then after I have spoken, you may mock. 4 "As for me, is my complaint to man ? And why should I not be impatient ? 5 "Look at me, and be astonished, And put your hand over your mouth. 6 "Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh. 7 "Why do the wicked still live, Continue on, also become very powerful ? 8 "Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes, 9 Their houses are safe from fear, And the rod of God is not on them. 10 "His ox mates without fail ; His cow calves and does not abort. 11 "They send forth their little ones like the flock, And their children skip about. 12 "They sing to the timbrel and harp And rejoice at the sound of the flute. 13 "They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol. 14 "They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways. 15 'Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we gain if we entreat Him?' 16 "Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand ; The counsel of the wicked is far from me. 17 "How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, Or does their calamity fall on them? Does God apportion destruction in His anger ? 18 "Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away ? 19 "You say, 'God stores away a man's iniquity for his sons.' Let God repay him so that he may know it. 20 "Let his own eyes see his decay, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 "For what does he care for his household after him, When the number of his months is cut off ? 22 "Can anyone teach God knowledge, In that He judges those on high ? 23 "One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and satisfied ; 24 His sides are filled out with fat, And the marrow of his bones is moist, 25 While another dies with a bitter soul, Never even tasting anything good. 26 "Together they lie down in the dust, And worms cover them. 27 "Behold, I know your thoughts, And the plans by which you would wrong me. 28 "For you say, 'Where is the house of the nobleman, And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked ?' 29 "Have you not asked wayfaring men, And do you not recognize their witness ? 30 "For the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity ; They will be led forth at the day of fury. 31 "Who will confront him with his actions, And who will repay him for what he has done ? 32 "While he is carried to the grave, Men will keep watch over his tomb. 33 "The clods of the valley will gently cover him; Moreover, all men will follow after him, While countless ones go before him. 34 "How then will you vainly comfort me, For your answers remain full of falsehood ?" [[slnc 10000]]

• Job 22 (1:53)

Job 22 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded , 2 "Can a vigorous man be of use to God, Or a wise man be useful to himself? 3 "Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, Or profit if you make your ways perfect ? 4 "Is it because of your reverence that He reproves you, That He enters into judgment against you? 5 "Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquities without end ? 6 "For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause, And stripped men naked. 7 "To the weary you have given no water to drink, And from the hungry you have withheld bread. 8 "But the earth belongs to the mighty man, And the honorable man dwells in it. 9 "You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the orphans has been crushed. 10 "Therefore snares surround you, And sudden dread terrifies you, 11 Or darkness, so that you cannot see, And an abundance of water covers you. 12 "Is not God in the height of heaven ? Look also at the distant stars, how high they are! 13 "You say, 'What does God know ? Can He judge through the thick darkness ? 14 'Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see ; And He walks on the vault of heaven.' 15 "Will you keep to the ancient path Which wicked men have trod, 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were washed away by a river ? 17 "They said to God, 'Depart from us!' And 'What can the Almighty do to them?' 18 "Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 "The righteous see and are glad, And the innocent mock them, 20 Saying, 'Truly our adversaries are cut off, And their abundance the fire has consumed.' 21 "Yield now and be at peace with Him; Thereby good will come to you. 22 "Please receive instruction from His mouth And establish His words in your heart. 23 "If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored ; If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent, 24 And place your gold in the dust, And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks, 25 Then the Almighty will be your gold And choice silver to you. 26 "For then you will delight in the Almighty And lift up your face to God. 27 "You will pray to Him, and He will hear you; And you will pay your vows. 28 "You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you; And light will shine on your ways. 29 "When you are cast down, you will speak with confidence, And the humble person He will save. 30 "He will deliver one who is not innocent, And he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." [[slnc 10000]]

• 2 Peter 2 (2:17)

2 Peter 2 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned ; 3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words ; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment ; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly ; 6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter ; 7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men 8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds ), 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, 11 whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, 13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children ; 15 forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness ; 16 but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet. 17 These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved. 18 For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption ; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them. 22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire." [[slnc 10000]]

• Romans 7 (2:22)

Romans 7 1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law ), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives ? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living ; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress ; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then ? Is the Law sin ? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law ; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind ; for apart from the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the Law ; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died ; 10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. The Conflict of Two Natures 14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand ; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh ; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death ? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord ! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. [[slnc 10000]]