Formation Journal Reading Plan

13:1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,

13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them;”

13:3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

13:4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

13:5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

13:7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

13:8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:

13:9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

13:10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

13:12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,

13:13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known;

13:14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,

13:15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

13:16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

13:17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

13:18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

105:1 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

105:2 Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

105:3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

105:4 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

105:5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

105:6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

105:7 He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

105:8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

105:9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

105:10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

105:11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;”

105:12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

105:13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

105:14 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

105:15 “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

105:16 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

105:17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

105:19 until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

105:20 The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

105:22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

8:1 It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,

8:2 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

8:3 and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

8:4 When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

8:5 “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

8:6 Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

8:7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

8:8 Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

8:9 Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

8:10 He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

8:12 Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

8:13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

8:14 That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

8:15 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.