M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
25 2 The Sabbath of the seventh year. 8 The Jubilee in the fiftieth year. 14 Not to oppress their brethren. 23 The sale and redeeming of lands, houses and persons.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye shall come into the land which I give you, the (A)land shall [a]keep Sabbath unto the Lord.
3 [b]Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof.
4 But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land: it shall be the Lord’s Sabbath: thou shalt neither sow thy field nor cut thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its [c]own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that thou hast left [d]unlabored: for it shall be a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the [e]rest of the land shall be meat for you, even for thee and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for the stranger that sojourneth with thee:
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 ¶ Also thou shalt number seven [f]Sabbaths of years unto thee, even seven times seven years: and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years will be unto thee nine and forty years.
9 [g]Then thou shalt cause to blow the trumpet of the Jubilee in the tenth day of the seventh month: even in the day of the reconciliation shall ye make the trumpet blow throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow that year, even the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all the [h]inhabitants thereof: it shall be the Jubilee unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his [i]possession, and every man shall return unto his family.
11 This fiftieth year shall be a year of Jubilee unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself, neither gather the grapes thereof that are left unlabored.
12 For it is the Jubilee, it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat of the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this Jubilee, ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And when thou sellest ought to thy neighbor, or buyest at thy neighbor’s hand, ye shall [j]not oppress one another.
15 But according to the number of [k]years after the Jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbor: also according to the number of the years of the revenues, he shall sell unto thee.
16 According to the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt abate the price of it: for the number of [l]fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Oppress not ye therefore any man his neighbor, but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall obey mine ordinances, and keep my laws, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land [m]in safety.
19 And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year, for we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase?
21 I will [n]send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the old fruit until the ninth year: until the fruit thereof come ye shall eat the old.
23 ¶ Also the land shall not be sold to be [o]cut off from the family: for the land is mine, and ye be but strangers and sojourners with me.
24 Therefore in all the land of your possession ye shall [p]grant a redemption of the land.
25 ¶ If thy brother be impoverished, and sell his possession, then his redeemer shall come, even his near kinsman, and buy out that, which his [q]brother sold.
26 And if he have no redeemer, but [r]hath gotten and found to buy it out,
27 Then shall he [s]count the years of his sale, and restore the overplus to the man, to whom he sold it: so shall he return to his possession.
28 But if he cannot get sufficient to restore to him, then that which is sold, shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the year of the Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall come [t]out, and he shall return unto his possession.
29 Likewise if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he may buy it out again within a whole year after it is sold: within a year may he buy it out.
30 But if it be not bought out within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city, shall be stablished, [u]as cut off from the family, to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the Jubilee.
31 But the houses of villages which have no walls round about them, shall be esteemed as the field of the country: they may be bought out again, and shall [v]go out in the Jubilee.
32 Notwithstanding, the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem [w]at all seasons.
33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, the house that was sold, and the city of their possession shall go out in the Jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
34 But the field of the [x]suburbs of their cities shall not be sold: for it is their perpetual possession.
35 ¶ Moreover, if thy brother be impoverished, and [y]fallen in decay with thee, thou shalt relieve him, and as a stranger and sojourner, so shall he live with thee.
36 (B)Thou shalt take no usury of him, nor vantage, but thou shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money to usury, nor lend him thy vittles for increase.
38 I am the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 ¶ (C)If thy brother also that dwelleth by thee be impoverished, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant,
40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner he shall be with thee: he shall serve thee unto the year of Jubilee.
41 Then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return:
42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not [z]be sold as bondmen are sold.
43 (D)Thou shalt not rule over him cruelly, but shalt fear thy God.
44 Thy bond servant also, and thy bondmaid, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you: of them shall ye buy servants and maids.
45 And moreover, of the children of the strangers that are sojourners among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you which they begat in your land: these shall be your [aa]possession.
46 So ye shall take them, as inheritance for your children after you to possess them by inheritance, ye shall use their labors forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule one over another with cruelty.
47 ¶ If a sojourner or a stranger dwelling by thee [ab]get riches, and thy brother by him be impoverished, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner dwelling by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family,
48 After that he is sold, he may be bought out: one of his brethren may buy him out.
49 Or his uncle, or his uncle’s son may buy him out, or any of the kindred of his flesh among his family, may redeem him: either if he can [ac]get so much, he may buy himself out.
50 Then he shall reckon with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him, unto the year of Jubilee: and the money of his sale shall be according to the number of [ad]years: according to the time of an hired servant shall he be with him.
51 If there be many years behind, according to them shall he give again for his deliverance, of the money that he was bought for.
52 If there remain but few years unto the year of Jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years give again for his redemption.
53 He shall be with him year by year as an hired servant: he shall not rule cruelly over him in thy [ae]sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed thus, he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
32 1 David punished with grievous sickness for his sins, counteth them blessed to whom God doth not impute their transgressions. 5 And after that he had confessed his sins, and obtained pardon, 6 he exhorteth the wicked men to live godly, 11 and the good to rejoice.
A Psalm of David to give [a]instruction.
1 Blessed is he whose wickedness is [b]forgiven, and whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man, unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I held my [c]tongue, my bones consumed, or when I [d]roared all the day,
4 (For thine hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is turned into the drought of Summer. Selah.)
5 Then I [e]acknowledged my sin unto thee, neither hid I mine iniquity: for I thought, I will confess against myself my wickedness unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the punishment of my sin. Selah.
6 Therefore shall everyone that is godly, make his prayer unto thee in a [f]time, when thou mayest be found: surely in the flood of great waters [g]they shall not come near him.
7 Thou art my secret place: thou preservest me from trouble: thou compassest me about with joyful deliverance. Selah.
8 I will [h]instruct thee, and teach thee in the way that thou shalt go, and I will guide thee with mine eye.
9 Be ye not like an horse, or like a mule which understand not: whose [i]mouths thou dost bind with bit and bridle, lest they come near thee.
10 Many sorrows shall come to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him.
11 Be glad ye righteous, and [j]rejoice in the Lord, and be joyful all ye, that are upright in heart.
8 2 To obey Princes and Magistrates. 17 The works of God pass man’s knowledge.
1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? the wisdom of a man doth make his face [a]to shine: and [b]the strength of his face shall be changed.
2 I advertise thee to take heed to the [c]mouth of the king, and to the word of the oath of God.
3 [d]Haste not to go forth of his sight: stand not in an evil thing: for he will do whatsoever pleaseth him.
4 Where the word of the King is, there is power, and who shall say unto him, What doest thou?
5 He that keepeth the commandment, shall know none evil thing, and the heart of the wise shall know the [e]time, and judgment.
6 For to every purpose there is a time and judgment, because the [f]misery of man is great upon him.
7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 Man is not Lord [g]over the spirit to retain the spirit: neither hath he power in the day of death, nor deliverance in the battle, neither shall wickedness deliver the possessors thereof.
9 All this have I seen, and have given mine heart to every work which is wrought under the sun, and I saw a time that man ruleth over man to his own [h]hurt.
10 And likewise I saw the wicked buried, and [i]they returned, and they that came from the holy [j]place, were yet forgotten in the city, where they had done right: this also is vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not [k]executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and God prolongeth his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear the Lord, and do reverence before him.
13 But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days: he shall be like a shadow, because he feareth not before God.
14 There is a vanity, which is done upon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it cometh according to the [l]work of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it cometh according to the work of the just: I thought also that this is vanity.
15 And I praised joy, for there is no goodness to man under the sun, save [m]to eat and to drink and to rejoice: for this is adjoined to his labor the days of his life that God hath given him under the sun.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to behold the business that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleep,
17 Then I beheld the whole work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is wrought under the sun: for the which man laboreth to seek it, and cannot find it: yea, and though the wise man think to know it, he cannot find it.
4 1 He chargeth him to preach the Gospel with all diligence, 3 in that so miserable a time: 6 that his death is hard at hand, 8 yet so, that as a conqueror he maketh haste to a glorious triumph. 10 He showeth the cause why he sendeth for Timothy, 11 even by reason of his present state.
1 I [a]Charge thee therefore before God, and before the Lord Jesus Christ, which shall judge the quick and dead at that his appearing, and in his kingdom,
2 Preach the word: be instant, in season, and out of season: improve, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 [b]For the time will come when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but having their ears itching, shall after their own lusts get them an heap of teachers,
4 And shall turn their ears from the truth, and shall be given unto [c]fables.
5 [d]But watch thou in all things: suffer adversity: do the work of an Evangelist: [e]cause thy ministry to be thoroughly liked of.
6 [f]For I am now ready to be [g]offered, and the time of my departing is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, and have finished my course: I have kept the faith.
8 For henceforth is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love that his appearing.
9 [h]Make speed to come unto me at once:
10 For Demas hath forsaken me, and hath [i]embraced this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
11 (A)Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee: for he is profitable unto me to minister.
12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
13 The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but specially the parchments.
14 Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works.
15 Of whom be thou ware also: for he withstood our preaching sore.
16 At my first answering no man assisted me, but all forsook me: I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charge.
17 Notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully believed, and that all the Gentiles should hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the [j]lion.
18 And the Lord will deliver me from every [k]evil work, and will preserve me unto his [l]heavenly kingdom: to whom be praise for ever and ever, Amen.
19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the (B)household of Onesiphorus.
20 Erastus abode at Corinth: Trophimus I left at Miletus sick.
21 Make speed to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy Spirit. Grace be with you, Amen.
¶ The second Epistle written from Rome unto Timothy, the first Bishop elected of the Church of Ephesus, when Paul was presented the second time before the Emperor Nero.
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