Formation Journal Reading Plan

Deuteronomy 22

22:1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.
22:2 If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
22:3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
22:4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
22:5 A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
22:6 If a bird’s nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
22:7 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don’t bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
22:11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
22:14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”
22:15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
22:16 and the young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
22:17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
22:19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
22:21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
22:23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:
22:26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;
22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.
22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
22:30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

Psalm 108

108:1 A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
108:2 Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
108:3 I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
108:4 For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
108:5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth.
108:6 That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
108:7 God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
108:8 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.
108:9 Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia.”
108:10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
108:11 Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go forth, God, with our armies.
108:12 Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
108:13 Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.

Luke 9:37-50

9:37 It happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him.
9:38 Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
9:39 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
9:40 I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”
9:41 Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
9:42 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
9:43 They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,
9:44 “Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
9:45 But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
9:46 There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.
9:47 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
9:48 and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”
9:49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.”
9:50 Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”