Formation Journal Reading Plan

13:1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

13:2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

13:3 “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

13:4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

13:5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

13:6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

13:7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

13:8 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

13:10 He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.

13:11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

13:12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13:13 “Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

13:14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

13:15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

13:16 This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

13:17 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

13:18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

13:19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

13:20 “Only don’t do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

13:21 withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

13:22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

13:24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

13:25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

13:26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

13:27 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

13:28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

14:1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

14:3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

14:6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

14:7 “For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

14:8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

14:9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

14:10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

14:12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

14:13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14:14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

14:15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

14:16 But now you number my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

14:17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

14:18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

14:19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

14:20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

14:21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

14:22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

51:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

51:3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

51:4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

51:6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

51:11 Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

4:14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

4:15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

4:16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

4:17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

4:21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

5:2 You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

5:3 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

5:9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

5:10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

5:11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don’t even eat with such a person.

5:12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

5:13 But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”