Make every effort

OT

 

6th Cycle.

  

NT

 

12th Cycle.

  

2024-11-05 Fri

2024-11-08 Fri

1 Peter 1:1 - 5:14 (104 verses) WEB

2 Peter 1:1 - 3:18 (61 verses) NET

2024-11-09 Sat

1 John 1:1 - 5:21 (105 verses) WEB

2 John 1:1 - 1:13 (13 verses) NET

3 John 1:1 - 1:14 (14 verses) NET

2024-11-10 Sun

Jude 1:1 - 1:25 (25 verses) NIV

Revelation 1:1 - 3:22 (71 verses) NIV

2024-11-13 Wed

Revelation 4:1 - 16:21 (207 verses) NET

2024-11-14 Thu

Revelation 17:1 - 19:21 (63 verses) RBV

2024-11-15 Fri

Revelation 20:1 - 22:21 (63 verses) RBV

NET — New English Translation
WEB — World English Bible
NIV — New International Version
RBV — Revised Berkeley Version

Overall Progress
OT = 22,558 / 23,145 verses (97.46 %)
NT = 7,955 / 7,957 verses (99.97 %)

Today I have reached the end of my 12th Cycle of New Testament readings. This has been an intensive round of readings, having begun late at the beginning of October and taking me just one and a half months to complete reading all 27 books of the NT.

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Passage for Today

2 Peter 1:5b – 9

 

New English Translation

. . . make every effort to add to your faith excellence, to excellence, knowledge; 6 to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness; 7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love. 8 For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately. 9 But concerning the one who lacks such things – he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.

Not with persuasive words but with power of God

OT

 

6th Cycle.

  

NT

 

12th Cycle.

  

2024-11-06 Wed

2024-10-26 Sat

Romans 12:1 - 16:27 (118 verses) NET

2024-10-27 Sun

1 Corinthians 1:1 - 6:20 (124 verses) NET

2024-10-28 Mon

1 Corinthians 7:1 - 16:24 (313 verses) WEB

2 Corinthians 1:1 - 13:13 (256 verses) RBV

2024-10-29 Tue

Galatians 1:1 - 6:18 (149 verses) RBV

2024-10-30 Wed

Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 (155 verses) WEB

2024-10-31 Thu

Philippians 1:1 - 4:23 (104 verses) KJV

Colossians 1:1 - 4:18 (95 verses) KJV

2024-11-01 Fri

1 Thessalonians 1:1 - 5:28 (89 verses) NET

2 Thessalonians 1:1 - 3:18 (47 verses) NET

2024-11-02 Sat

1 Timothy 1:1 - 6:21 (113 verses) WEB

2 Timothy 1:1 - 4:22 (83 verses) WEB

2024-11-05 Tue

Titus 1:1 - 3:15 (46 verses) NET

Philemon 1:1 - 1:25 (25 verses) NET

Hebrews 1:1 - 13:25 (303 verses) WEB

2024-11-06 Wed

James 1:1 - 3:18 (71 verses) NET

James 4:1 - 5:20 (37 verses) WEB

NET — New English Translation
WEB — World English Bible
RBV — Revised Berkeley Version
KJV — King James Version

Overall Progress
OT = 22,558 / 23,145 verses (97.46 %)
NT = 7,229 / 7,957 verses (90.85 %)

Most of my readings over the past ten days were done during my recent visit to Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Shanghai in the Jiangnan district of China.

This is the first time I manage to continue with my daily Bible readings while travelling, mostly at night back at the hotel after a long day of sight-seeing, with some reading done on long bus journeys between distant cities, and on the five hour flights to and fro.

I have now read about 90% of the New Testament.

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Passages for Today

1 Corinthians 2:4,5

 

New English Translation

4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11

 

New English Translatioin

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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My thoughts for today can be found in the links below —

• Paradoxes of Apostolic Living 2022-05-19
• Words of Life 2021-01-17
• We believe, therefore we speak 2020-07-06
• The New Way of the Spirit 2013-06-10