Annual Bible reading

New International Version: 74 of 365 days

• Exodus 25
• 1. The LORD said to Moses,
• 2. "Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give.
• 3. These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
• 4. blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
• 5. ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows; acacia wood;
• 6. olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
• 7. and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
• 8. "Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.
• 9. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
• 10. "Have them make a chest of acacia wood-two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
• 11. Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
• 12. Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
• 13. Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
• 14. Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the chest to carry it.
• 15. The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.
• 16. Then put in the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
• 17. "Make an atonement cover of pure gold-two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
• 18. And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
• 19. Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends.
• 20. The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover.
• 21. Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
• 22. There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
• 23. "Make a table of acacia wood-two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
• 24. Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
• 25. Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
• 26. Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
• 27. The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
• 28. Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
• 29. And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
• 30. Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.
• 31. "Make a lampstand of pure gold and hammer it out, base and shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms shall be of one piece with it.
• 32. Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand-three on one side and three on the other.
• 33. Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.
• 34. And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.
• 35. One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair-six branches in all.
• 36. The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
• 37. "Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.
• 38. Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.
• 39. A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.
• 40. See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
• John 5
• 1. Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
• 2. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
• 3. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
• 4. See Footnote
• 5. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
• 6. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
• 7. "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
• 8. Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
• 9. At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
• 10. and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
• 11. But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
• 12. So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"
• 13. The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
• 14. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
• 15. The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
• 16. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.
• 17. Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
• 18. For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
• 19. Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
• 20. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.
• 21. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
• 22. Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
• 23. that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
• 24. "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
• 25. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
• 26. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
• 27. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
• 28. "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
• 29. and come out--those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
• 30. By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
• 31. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.
• 32. There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.
• 33. "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.
• 34. Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved.
• 35. John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
• 36. "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.
• 37. And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
• 38. nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.
• 39. You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,
• 40. yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
• 41. "I do not accept praise from men,
• 42. but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.
• 43. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
• 44. How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?
• 45. "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.
• 46. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
• 47. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
• Proverbs 2
• 1. My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
• 2. turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
• 3. and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
• 4. and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
• 5. then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
• 6. For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
• 7. He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
• 8. for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
• 9. Then you will understand what is right and just and fair-every good path.
• 10. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
• 11. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
• 12. Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
• 13. who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
• 14. who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
• 15. whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
• 16. It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,
• 17. who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
• 18. For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
• 19. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
• 20. Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
• 21. For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
• 22. but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

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