Formation Journal Reading Plan

11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

11:2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

11:3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid food before them.

11:5 They shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return to me.

11:6 And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

11:7 And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him.

11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together.

11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in wrath.

11:10 They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.

11:11 They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will make them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.

11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.

12:1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

12:2 Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

12:3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:

12:4 yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,

12:5 even Jehovah, the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial name.

12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

12:7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

12:8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.

12:9 But I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

12:10 I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.

12:11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

12:12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

12:13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

12:14 Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

14:2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his pride; But the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But much increase is by the strength of the ox.

14:5 A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness uttereth lies.

14:6 A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.

14:7 Go into the presence of a foolish man, And thou shalt not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.

14:9 A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will.

14:10 The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not inter-meddle with its joy.

14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.

14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

14:15 The simple believeth every word; But the prudent man looketh well to his going.

14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.

14:17 He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.

14:18 The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

1:2 Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

1:3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

1:4 For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

1:5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

1:6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.

1:9 But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

1:10 But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

1:11 Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

1:12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

1:13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.

1:14 And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling words), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.