Formation Journal Reading Plan

18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?

18:4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

18:6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

18:9 A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him.

18:10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

18:12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

18:13 The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

18:14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

18:15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

18:19 He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

18:20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.

18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

53:1 For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.

53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

53:3 Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?

53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them.

53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

7:17 Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.

7:18 Was any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

7:20 Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

7:21 Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather.

7:22 For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord’s freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ’s bondservant.

7:23 Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

7:24 Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.

7:26 I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

7:28 But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

7:30 and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;

7:31 and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

7:32 But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

7:33 but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

7:34 and is divided. So also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

7:35 And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

7:36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

7:37 But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching his own will, and hath determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, shall do well.

7:38 So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

7:39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

7:40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.