Formation Journal Reading Plan

5:1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

5:2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

5:3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

5:4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

5:5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

5:6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and therulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.

5:8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

5:9 Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

5:10 And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

5:12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

5:13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.

5:14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

5:15 But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

5:16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

5:17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those that came unto us from among the nations that were round about us.

5:18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

5:19 Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.

35:12 They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.

35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

35:14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.

35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great assembly: I will praise thee among much people.

35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

35:20 For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

35:22 Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice due unto me, Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

35:24 Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.

35:25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

35:26 Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, Who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

35:28 And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness And of thy praise all the day long.

5:12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

5:13 for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.

5:15 But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto the many.

5:16 And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.

5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

5:18 So then as through one trespass the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness the free gift came unto all men to justification of life.

5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

5:20 And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

5:21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

6:2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

6:3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

6:5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

6:7 for he that hath died is justified from sin.

6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

6:9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.

6:10 For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

6:11 Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

6:13 neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.