Formation Journal Reading Plan

64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,

64:2 as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

64:3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.

64:4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him.

64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time; and shall we be saved?

64:6 For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.

64:8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

64:10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

105:24 And he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.

105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal subtly with his servants.

105:26 He sent Moses his servant, And Aaron whom he had chosen.

105:27 They set among them his signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.

105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words.

105:29 He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.

105:30 Their land swarmed with frogs In the chambers of their kings.

105:31 He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders.

105:32 He gave them hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land.

105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders.

105:34 He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,

105:35 And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground.

105:36 He smote also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their strength.

105:37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold; And there was not one feeble person among his tribes.

105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed; For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.

105:40 They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

105:41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places like a river.

105:42 For he remembered his holy word, And Abraham his servant.

105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, And his chosen with singing.

105:44 And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:

105:45 That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.

2:6 As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

2:7 rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

2:8 Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

2:9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

2:10 and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

2:11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

2:13 And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

2:14 having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

2:15 having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

2:17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

2:18 Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

2:19 and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

2:20 If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

2:21 Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

2:22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

2:23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.