Formation Journal Reading Plan

7:1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

7:2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

7:5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

7:6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

7:7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

7:10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.

7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

7:12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:

7:13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

7:15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

7:16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

7:17 If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;

7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

7:20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

7:21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.

7:22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

7:23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.

7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

7:25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

7:26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

103:1 By David. Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

103:2 Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits;

103:3 who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;

103:4 who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

103:5 who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

103:6 Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

103:7 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

103:8 Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

103:9 He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

103:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

103:13 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

103:14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

103:15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

103:16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

103:17 But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

103:18 to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

6:37 Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

6:39 He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

6:40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

6:41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

6:42 Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

6:43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

6:44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

6:45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

6:46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

6:47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

6:48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

6:49 But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”