Formation Journal Reading Plan

13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

13:4 But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

13:5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

13:6 Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

13:7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

13:8 Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?

13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?

13:10 He will surely reprove you, If ye do secretly show partiality.

13:11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?

13:12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

13:14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

13:15 Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

13:16 This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

13:17 Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears.

13:18 Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.

13:19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

13:20 Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide myself from thy face:

13:21 Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.

13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me.

13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

13:25 Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:

13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:

13:28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

14:1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

14:3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

14:5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

14:6 Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

14:7 For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.

14:10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

14:12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

14:13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

14:15 Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.

14:16 But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.

14:18 But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;

14:19 The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

14:22 But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

51:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

51:2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

51:3 For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.

51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy Spirit from me.

4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

4:15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

4:16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

4:17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.

4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

5:1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father’s wife.

5:2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

5:3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

5:4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5:5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:

5:8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

5:9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

5:10 not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:

5:11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

5:12 For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?

5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.